Share the invoice.
Not the price.

Redactly finds every price hiding in a PDF and actually removes it, not just paints over it. Send a quote, invoice, or receipt without handing over what anything cost.

invoice-Q3-consulting.pdf
Strategy consulting, 12 hrs $1,240.00
On-site workshop $860.00
Travel & expenses $212.50
Total due $2,312.50
4 prices detected on this page
Confidence: high on all four
✓ 4 prices redacted, text is gone underneath
The idea

A black rectangle isn't redaction.

Most "redact this PDF" tools draw a shape on top of the text and call it done. The price is still sitting underneath, in the document's actual content. Select all, paste into a text editor, and it comes right back.

Draw a box on top

What most tools do

Total$1,240.00

The rectangle sits on a layer above the text. The text itself never moved — copy the page and the number pastes out in plain sight.

Rebuild the page

What Redactly does

Total$1,240.00

The page gets flattened into a single image with the price already gone, then rebuilt into the PDF. There's no text object left to select or extract.

How it works

Four steps, start to finish.

No configuration, no export settings to learn. Open a PDF and go.

01

Open a PDF invoice in Chrome

A web link, an email attachment, or a file already on your computer all work the same way.

02

Click the Redactly icon

Or skip straight to detection with Ctrl+Shift+Space. Either way, Redactly scans the page for anything price-shaped.

03

Review what it found

Every match is highlighted by confidence. Click one to turn it off if it's wrong, or leave it — nothing happens until you say so.

04

Redact and download

Saves a new file next to the original. Your source PDF is never touched or overwritten.

Everything it does

One job, done properly.

Redactly doesn't try to be a full PDF editor. It finds prices and gets rid of them, well.

Auto-detect

Finds dollar amounts, totals, and other currency formats without you circling anything by hand.

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Review before you commit

Every detected price can be individually included or excluded before you redact anything.

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Three redaction styles

A solid black bar, a white blend-in, or a [PRICE] placeholder that shows something was removed.

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True removal

Redacted pages are flattened to an image. The number can't be copied, searched, or recovered.

Keyboard shortcut

Ctrl+Shift+Space jumps straight into detection on whatever PDF is open.

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Works on local files too

Redact a PDF sitting on your computer, not just one you found on the web.

The hard part

Actually removing text is more work than covering it.

A PDF page isn't a picture, it's a set of instructions: draw this text at this position, in this font. A rectangle drawn "over" a price is just another instruction added on top. The original instruction to draw $1,240.00 is still in there, and any tool that reads the page's content stream can pull it straight out, box or no box.

Redactly takes the slower route. It renders the affected page to a canvas at full resolution, paints the redaction directly into the pixels, and replaces that page's vector content with the flattened image inside the PDF. The number isn't hidden anymore, it's gone.

Pages with nothing to redact are left exactly as they were, still text, still searchable. Only the pages that actually had a price on them get flattened.

Rectangle over textstill selectable
Rectangle over textstill in content stream
Redactly, flattened pageno text object left
Redactly, untouched pagesstill real, searchable text
Privacy

Nothing about your invoice leaves your browser.

This matters more for a tool that touches financial documents than most, so here's exactly what happens and what doesn't.

No file upload, everDetection and redaction both run inside your browser tab, using local libraries. Your PDF never touches a server, because Redactly doesn't have one.
No accounts, no sign-inThere's nothing to create and nothing tied to your identity. Install it and it works.
No analytics, no telemetryRedactly doesn't know how many prices you've redacted, what PDFs you've opened, or that you exist. Nothing is collected because nothing is sent anywhere.
One thing stored locallyYour preferred redaction style is saved in Chrome's local storage so you're not resetting it every session. That's the only thing Redactly remembers, and it never leaves your machine.
activeTab
Lets Redactly see the PDF in your current tab after you click the icon. It doesn't run in the background on tabs you haven't interacted with.
scripting
Injects the detection and redaction panel into the page you're viewing. This is what draws the highlight boxes and the control panel.
downloads
Used only to trigger Chrome's own save dialog when you download the redacted file. You choose where it goes.
storage
Stores your last-used redaction style locally, nothing else. No documents, no history, no identifying data.
FAQ

Questions people actually ask.

Not reliably yet. Detection reads the PDF's actual text layer, so a scanned document that's really just a photo of a page has nothing to detect. OCR support for scanned files is on the list, but it isn't there today.

No, not directly. Remove the password first (most PDF readers can do this if you know the password), then run Redactly on the unlocked file.

Only the pages that actually contain a price you've chosen to redact get flattened into an image. Every other page keeps its original text, exactly as it was.

That's what the review step is for. Every match shows a confidence level, and you can turn any individual one on or off before anything is redacted. Nothing is final until you click download.

No. Everything runs locally in your browser tab. See the privacy section above for the specifics.

Get started

Stop screenshotting over your own invoices.

Install Redactly and redact your first PDF in under a minute.