Legal professionals
Redact client names, social security numbers, and privileged information from discovery documents and public court filings.
Permanently remove sensitive information from PDFs stored in Google Drive. Super PDF Editor lets you draw redaction boxes over any content and save the redacted file back to Drive.
Install Super PDF Editor freeWhy redaction matters
Redaction is the process of permanently removing sensitive information from a document before sharing it. In legal, HR, medical, and financial contexts, sharing documents with unredacted personal data can violate privacy laws like GDPR and HIPAA.
Simply drawing a black box over text in a PDF editor isn't enough—if the text is still in the file, someone can extract it. Super PDF Editor's redaction tool permanently removes the content from the PDF when you save, ensuring the information is truly gone.
Step-by-step
Install Super PDF Editor from the Google Workspace Marketplace. It integrates directly into Google Drive. Free to install.
Right-click the PDF file in Google Drive, choose "Open with," and select Super PDF Editor. The document opens in your browser editor.
Click the Redact tool in the editor toolbar. Draw boxes over the text, numbers, or images you want to redact. You can draw multiple boxes across multiple pages.
Click Apply to finalize the redactions, then save the file back to Google Drive. The redacted content is permanently removed from the saved PDF file.
Common redaction use cases
Redact client names, social security numbers, and privileged information from discovery documents and public court filings.
Redact PII from employee documents—salary details, addresses, ID numbers—before sharing with vendors or other departments.
Redact participant identifiers and confidential data from research documents before sharing with review boards or publishing.
FAQ
Yes. When you apply a redaction in Super PDF Editor and save the file, the content underneath is permanently removed from the PDF. It cannot be recovered by selecting text, copying, or extracting from the saved file.
Yes. You can draw redaction boxes over any content in the PDF—text, numbers, signatures, photographs, or other images. The entire selected area is redacted.
Yes. Redaction works on scanned PDFs because it covers the specified area regardless of whether the content is editable text or an embedded image.
Yes. When saving, you can choose to overwrite the original or save the redacted version as a new file in the same Google Drive folder. This lets you keep the unredacted original for internal use while sharing the redacted version.
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