Redact PDFs on Mac without Adobe.

Find sensitive text, review every match and export a redacted PDF from your Mac.

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Flattened pages. Safe text stays searchable.

ClipScrub rasterizes every exported page. A redaction mark cannot sit over selectable source text. For a PDF that already has a text layer, it writes back only the safe text so search and copy still work.

Scanned PDFs stay image-only.

Verify the exported copy

Use this synthetic safe-output PDF as a check after exporting: search for the fake value you entered and copy the visible redaction area. The original value must not appear.

Download the synthetic PDF check.

Preview is useful. Review still matters.

Preview can mark a selection for redaction. ClipScrub adds automatic detection, a review step and a flattened export. Detection is not exhaustive, so review the result before sharing it.