Find and Redact PII
Find and Redact PII is search-to-redact for HR, legal, and support files. Matches come from the selectable text layer. You confirm each hit, then PDFForge reuses the same raster redaction path as Redact PDF.
Privacy and offline checks
Document processing runs locally in supported PDFForge workflows. This panel is a diagnostic view; it cannot prove that no data left the device.
Observed resource activity
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Page timing and the active service worker report different surfaces and may observe the same request. Worker activity can be incomplete; WebSockets, request bodies and extensions are outside this view. The latest 60 sanitized observations stay in memory only. URLs, filenames, query strings, document content and byte counts are not recorded here.
Verify independently in DevTools
- Use a clean browser profile and synthetic documents. Open Network in DevTools and enable Preserve log.
- Prepare offline below. Switch Network to Offline, then reload the saved workspace and select a new file.
- Inspect, redact, run output checks and download. Inspect failed requests and request payloads, including worker requests. A same-site request can still transmit data.
- Inspect Application or Storage. Cache Storage should contain public app assets and setup records only. Document recovery and content telemetry are disabled; recipe settings are saved only after opt-in.
Offline readiness
Full workspace not prepared for offline use
English OCR not prepared for offline use
Prepare while connected to save the workspace, tools, fonts and workers. English OCR is optional. Only public app assets are saved; documents, outputs and passwords are excluded. Browser storage can be cleared or evicted. Check saved assets before disconnecting and prepare again after an app update.
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Open saved workspaceReady for local work · One heavy job at a time in this tab
Drop your PDF file here, or browse
Supports standard PDF documents • Up to 100 MB
Private by design. Document processing runs in this browser. PDFForge has no document upload API.
How it works
How Find and Redact PII works
Find and Redact PII is search-to-redact for HR, legal, and support files. Matches come from the selectable text layer. You confirm each hit, then PDFForge reuses the same raster redaction path as Redact PDF.
Guided steps
How to use Find and Redact PII
- 1Open a PDF that contains selectable text.
- 2Choose email, phone, ID-like numbers, and/or type a custom phrase.
- 3Find matches and confirm the highlights you want removed.
- 4Redact confirmed matches locally and download the new file.
In this tab
What stays in this browser
The file stays in this tab.
- What this tool reads
- The text layer, and the matches you confirm.
- What the download contains
- A rasterized PDF of the confirmed regions, with a pass or fail from the text layer.
Questions
Find and Redact PII FAQs
Does search upload the PDF?
No. Pattern matching and redaction run in this browser tab.
Why did a known value not match?
Only the text layer is searched. Split glyphs, unusual spacing, or scanned pages without OCR can miss hits. Use Redact PDF to draw a box instead.
Can confirmed text be copied from the output?
Confirmed regions are rasterized black on those pages, same as Redact PDF. Spot-check the download.
Continue locally
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