FairFillPDF Open a PDF

Black out text in a PDF

Drag a black box over names, account numbers or anything private. When you download, the words under it are removed from the file itself.

Drop your PDF hereOpen your PDF

You can also open photos of a paper form. Your PDF is never uploaded.

  1. Open your PDF here.
  2. Choose Blackout and drag over the words you want removed.
  3. Download it. That’s when the $1.99 is charged.

$1.99 per PDF, charged only when you download. Nothing renews.

How to black out a PDF here

  1. Open your PDF.
  2. Place the $1.99 hold on Stripe’s card page. Nothing is charged yet.
  3. Choose Blackout and drag a box over each thing to remove. Drag a box’s corner to resize it.
  4. Press Download. We charge the $1.99. Each page with a black box is saved as a picture with the box burned in, so the words under it are gone from the file.

Why a black box alone isn’t enough

A box drawn on top of a PDF only covers the words. Someone can often still copy the hidden text, or delete the box in another PDF app. Our Blackout redraws each page that has a box as a picture, so there is no text left underneath to copy.

On those pages, text can no longer be selected or searched. Pages without a black box stay as they were. If you only want to hide something on screen, use Whiteout instead.

Guides

  • How to redact a PDF

    Why a black box or white text doesn’t redact a PDF, how to remove the words for good, and what court filings must leave out.

Questions

Can someone undo the blackout?

Not from the file you download. The words under each box aren’t in it any more. Keep your original PDF if you might need them.

Does it work on scanned PDFs?

Yes. A scan is already a picture, and the black box is burned into it the same way.

What about form boxes on that page?

Form boxes on a blacked-out page become part of the picture with whatever you typed in them, and stop being fillable.

More you can do with the same PDF

Every tool is included in the $1.99.

Fill out a PDF formType into the boxes a form already has, or anywhere on the page.Sign a PDFDraw, type or upload your signature, then add the date.Make a PDF fillablePress Find blanks to add typing boxes on blank lines and tick boxes in empty squares.Type on a PDFAdd words, dates, ticks and crosses anywhere on a page.Merge PDFsPut several PDFs, or photos, into one file.Rearrange PDF pagesDrag pages into the order you want.Delete pages from a PDFRemove the pages you don’t need.Rotate a PDFTurn sideways or upside-down pages the right way up.Extract pages from a PDFSave some of the pages as their own PDF.JPG to PDFTurn photos of paper forms into one PDF.

Open your PDF. You’ll see it before you pay anything.

Open a PDF