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Redact

Create, review, apply, and remove redactions in DraftPDF.

Redact lets you mark text or page regions for permanent removal. DraftPDF keeps new redactions pending until you apply them.

Create

  1. Select the Redact tool from the annotation toolbar.
  2. Drag across the text or region you want to redact.
  3. Release to add a pending redaction mark.

Edit

Pending redactions are managed from the annotation summary instead of the standard per-annotation properties panel. You can review how many pending redactions exist, then apply them permanently or clear them before committing.

Once a redaction has been applied, you can select the resulting annotation and use the shared General and Metadata sections to inspect its annotation data.

Delete

  1. To remove a pending redaction, use Clear Pending in the annotation summary before applying it.
  2. If a redaction annotation has already been applied, select it and click Delete in the right-side properties panel.
Warning:Applying a redaction permanently removes the covered content from the PDF output. Review pending redactions carefully before committing them.
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