RedactFlow — Local PDF Privacy Tool

About

PERMANENTLY HIDE SENSITIVE INFORMATION FROM PDFs — WITHOUT UPLOADING THEM.

RedactFlow is the local-first privacy tool that lets you click-on-text or drag-resize opaque redaction boxes over sensitive content in PDFs. SSNs, account numbers, names, medical details, attorney work product — covered with one click, no cloud uploads, ever.

⭐ NEW IN v1.1: AI auto-detect (bring your own key), click-on-text selection, find & redact with regex, FOIA reason codes, forensic burn-in mode.

🔒 100% PRIVATE & LOCAL-FIRST
Unlike Adobe Pro, iLovePDF, Redactable, and every other cloud redactor, RedactFlow processes everything inside Chrome. Your files NEVER leave your computer. We have no servers. No uploads. No telemetry. No analytics. No phone-home.

⚠️ Important context: The redaction-tools market has a 65% failure rate problem — academic studies and 400+ documented breaches in 2023 show that "redacted" PDFs from competitors routinely leak text through the underlying content stream. RedactFlow's Forensic Mode (Pro) eliminates this by rasterizing pages to images — text is permanently unrecoverable.

🔥 FREE FEATURES (work forever, no time limit)
✅ Click-on-Text Redaction — Drag across words on the PDF; the box auto-hugs the selected text
✅ Drag-and-Drop Box — Drop a blind redaction rectangle anywhere
✅ Drag-to-Resize — Pull the bottom-right corner to size precisely
✅ Blackout (PII) + Whiteout (Clean) — Black to hide, white to clean marks/highlights
✅ Find & Redact (Ctrl+F) — Type or paste regex, "Redact all" matches across every page in one click
✅ FOIA Reason Codes — Tag each redaction with (b)(1)–(b)(9), HIPAA, PCI, GLBA, GDPR Art. 17, Attorney-Client Privilege, Work Product. Optional: burn the label into the output PDF
✅ Multi-Page Support — Navigate 200+ page PDFs, type page number to jump
✅ Page Rotation + Zoom — Fix sideways scans, zoom 40%–300%
✅ Right-Click Reason Editing — Change any placed redaction's reason via popover
✅ Tamper-Evident Hashing — SHA-256 + ISO timestamp embedded in PDF metadata
✅ Audit Log — Every redaction + AI call + batch run logged locally
✅ 13 Languages — English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati

💎 PRO FEATURES ($19/month OR $99 lifetime)
✨ AI Auto-Detect PII (BYOK) — Use your own OpenAI / Gemini / Anthropic API key to auto-detect SSNs, credit cards, emails, phone numbers, DOBs, addresses, names. Page TEXT only is sent (never the PDF binary). One-click stage → review → "Apply all" workflow.
🛡 Forensic Burn-In Mode — Rasterizes each page to a 300 DPI image, replacing page content. Forensic tools cannot recover the underlying text. ~5× file size, unrecoverable security.
🚀 Batch Multi-PDF Redaction — Drop 50 PDFs, define one redaction zone OR regex pattern, stamp every page of every file
🧹 PDF Metadata Scrubbing — Wipes Author, Producer, Title, Creator, Creation/Modification dates
🔁 Same-Spot-On-Every-Page — Apply current page's redactions across all pages
🚫 No Footer Watermark — Free tier adds a small "Redacted with RedactFlow" footer. Pro removes it.
📜 Audit Log Export — Court-defensible JSON export of every operation
🛡️ Priority support

PERFECT FOR
• Attorneys protecting client PII before discovery production
• Healthcare providers preparing HIPAA-compliant records
• HR teams redacting employment files before legal hold release
• Journalists handling FOIA documents and confidential sources
• Financial advisors scrubbing account numbers from statements
• Real estate professionals handling tax/SSN data
• Indian advocates filing in High Court (full Hindi / Marathi / Tamil / Kannada UI)
• Anyone tired of paying $30/month to Adobe just for a redaction tool

KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
• Ctrl+F — Open Find & Redact bar
• Ctrl+Z — Undo last redaction
• Ctrl+S — Download redacted PDF
• Ctrl+O — Open PDF
• T — Switch to Select Text tool
• B — Switch to Drag Box tool
• ← / → — Previous / Next page
• + / − — Zoom in / out
• R — Rotate page 90°
• Del — Delete selected redaction
• Type page number → Enter — Jump to page

WHAT MAKES REDACTFLOW DIFFERENT
1. Local-first architecture — your PDFs never reach our servers because we have none
2. $99 lifetime option — every other tool is monthly forever
3. BYOK AI — use your own OpenAI / Gemini / Anthropic key; we make zero margin on AI calls
4. Forensic mode — the only sub-$100/yr tool that offers true unrecoverable redaction
5. 13 languages including 7 Indian — owns the legal-tech-Asia market

⚠️ ABOUT REDACTION STRENGTH (transparency matters)
Standard mode (default): draws opaque rectangles over text. Blocks normal PDF viewers and copy-paste. Output PDF is small and other pages remain text-searchable.
Forensic mode (Pro, opt-in): rasterizes redacted pages to 300 DPI images. Text is unrecoverable even with pdftotext or raw-stream analysis. Use for classified, healthcare, FOIA, or any material where forensic recovery is a real threat.

PRIVACY POLICY: https://pixelforgehub.pro/privacy/redactflow
SUPPORT: https://pixelforgehub.pro/support
PRO LICENSE: https://pixelforgehub.pro/pricing

Not affiliated with Adobe Inc. RedactFlow is an independent tool built by yogeshnichal at PixelForgeHub.