Remove email addresses from a PDF without uploading it.
Email addresses are easy to miss and easy to scrape, so a document headed for a public filing, a website, or a forum should not carry a working inbox. KeptPDF finds the addresses, removes what you choose, and permanently destroys the text, all in your browser. The original never leaves your device. Review the result before you share it.
A box over an address still leaves it in the file.
Most PDF tools redact by drawing a rectangle on top. The email address stays in the file underneath, recoverable by moving the box or copying the text, and still readable to any script that scrapes the document. Hiding it is not the same as removing it.
Real redaction destroys the address in the PDF, so a covered email cannot be copied or scraped back out.
KeptPDF flattens each redacted page so nothing survives under the box, and it works in your browser, so the original PDF is never uploaded to a server. You can verify it yourself in the network tab.
A filled rectangle just sits on top of the text. Move it, switch viewers, or copy the page, and the hidden content is back.
The page is flattened to an image, so the text underneath is destroyed. There is nothing left to uncover.
Where email addresses hide in a document
Auto-detect finds the addresses wherever they sit, so you are not scanning every page by eye.
Addresses anywhere in the text
Auto-detect finds email addresses in the body, the headers, the footers, and signature blocks across the whole PDF.
Forwarded chains and headers
Quoted reply chains and message headers pack in many addresses at once. They are surfaced so an old thread does not ship with the file.
Names and phones alongside
Names, phone numbers, and other contact details next to an address are detected too, so you can clear a whole contact block at once.
Scanned and exported pages
If the PDF is a scan or an exported image, KeptPDF runs OCR first so it can find and redact addresses printed inside the image.
How to redact email addresses from a PDF
Three steps, entirely on your device. Permanent, verifiable, no upload.
Open your PDF
Drop your file onto the page or pick it from your device. It loads into your browser, and nothing is sent anywhere.
Mark what to redact
Auto-detect finds names, dates, Social Security numbers, account numbers, and more. Draw boxes over anything else you want gone.
Download the clean copy
Save it. The marked content is permanently gone: the page is flattened to an image, not hidden behind a box. Give the result a quick review before you share it.
Permanent removal, nothing uploaded.
True text destruction
Each redacted page is flattened to an image, so the text layer is gone, not just covered with a shape. Content under a redaction box cannot be copied, selected, or recovered. Review the result before you share it.
Auto-detect the obvious stuff
One pass finds names, dates, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, addresses, and emails across the whole PDF, so you are not hunting for each one by hand.
Never uploaded
There is no upload step. The PDF is processed entirely in your browser, so the original is never part of a network request and never sits on anyone else's server.
Redaction certificate (Pro)
Pro adds a signed PDF and JSON audit record listing every redacted span, category, and page, which is handy for productions and compliance files. Anyone you send it to can re-check the fingerprint in their own browser, with nothing uploaded.
Before a document goes public
Public filings and records releases, documents posted to a website, screenshots shared on a forum, and anything published where addresses would be scraped.