PDF Redaction Now Works on Scanned PDFs

PDF to Redact now reads scanned pages with OCR before redacting, so sensitive data in scans is found and blacked out too.

Highlights

• Scanned pages are redacted like any other page, with no extra step on your side.
• By default, OCR runs only on pages that have no text of their own. Pages that already contain text are redacted as they are.
• Pages read with OCR keep an invisible text layer in the result, so their remaining text becomes searchable.

Parameters

• OcrMode (auto, always or never, default auto) - controls when pages are read with OCR. auto reads only pages without text, such as scans. always reads every page, which also catches text inside images in a text PDF, for example a photo of an ID card. never skips OCR, so only existing text is redacted and scanned pages are returned unchanged.
• OcrLanguage (default en) - the language OCR reads.

Try it out

• PDF to Redact - API sandbox: pdf-to-redact