Local detection
The app analyzes your PDF locally with a privacy-first approach, identifying possible sensitive data such as names, emails, addresses, IDs, account numbers, phone numbers, and other confidential details.
Local PDF protection
Redact sensitive data before it leaves your document.
PDFCensor helps you detect personal, financial, or confidential information in PDF files, review it with your approval, and permanently remove it from the document and metadata without sending your files to a remote server.
Secure Local Scan
SSN
***-**-1234
Email
alice@company.com
Bank account
•••• 4821
Everything you need to protect confidential information.
PDFCensor is designed for professionals, teams, and individuals who need to review and sanitize sensitive content inside PDF files before sharing, publishing, or archiving them.
User-approved redaction
Review detected items before applying changes. You stay in control: confirm what should be blurred, removed, or left untouched.
Metadata cleanup
PDFCensor can help remove hidden metadata and embedded information from the document so sensitive details are not left behind in file properties or document history.
How PDFCensor works.
The workflow is simple, transparent, and intentionally designed to keep your files on your device.
Step 1
Import PDF
Choose the PDF document you want to review and secure.
Step 2
Scan locally
The app inspects the document with a local AI model to detect likely sensitive content.
Step 3
Review findings
Check each flagged item and decide what to redact manually or automatically.
Step 4
Export clean copy
Save a protected PDF with redactions and metadata cleaned up for sharing or storage.
Keep confidential content private.
Review, sanitize, and share PDFs with greater confidence.