Can anyone undo my redactions after downloading?

When you use sanitized redaction in SAVY, the page text is converted into flat pixels, making it technically impossible for recipients to highlight or recover the redacted text.

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Q: What is the difference between visual and sanitized redaction?

Visual redaction places opaque black rectangles over sensitive areas. Sanitized redaction flattens and rasterizes the redacted pages onto canvas so underlying text tokens cannot be extracted by search tools.

Permanently black out sensitive data, social security numbers, and private info. Your PDF is processed locally in your browser and is never uploaded to SAVY servers.

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Your PDF is processed locally in your browser and is never uploaded to SAVY servers.

Redaction Process

How to Black Out Sensitive Text in a PDF

Three steps to permanently safeguard confidential information.

Load File

Select or drop your PDF document. It opens in the redaction editor immediately.

Draw Redaction Boxes

Click and drag black redaction boxes over sensitive names, account numbers, or addresses.

Sanitize & Export

Choose sanitized export to permanently eliminate underlying text streams, then download your secure file.

Key Features

Why Redact with SAVY

True client-side document protection without cloud exposure.

Total Privacy Protection

The most sensitive documents should never touch a cloud server. SAVY runs 100% on your device.

Sanitized Redaction

Permanently destroys underlying text data tokens through canvas rasterization so no search can find them.

Precision Visual Tool

Drag-and-drop bounding boxes give you exact control down to the pixel on any page.

Completely Free

No subscription walls, no watermarks, and no page limitations on confidential exports.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers regarding client-side PDF redaction.

What is the difference between visual and sanitized redaction?

Visual redaction draws solid opaque black rectangles over sensitive coordinates. Sanitized redaction permanently renders the redacted pages into flat pixels, removing the underlying text stream entirely so search engines and text scrapers cannot recover it.

Are my redacted documents sent to a server?

No. Your PDF is processed locally in your browser and is never uploaded to SAVY servers. All redaction occurs strictly inside your browser memory.

Can anyone recover the text beneath sanitized redactions?

No. In sanitized redactions, the underlying text characters are completely replaced with solid black pixels in the PDF stream.

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