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Redact contracts before you share them

Permanently remove private and personal info from contracts before you send them out.

The problem

  • Associates spend hours manually blacking out privileged passages, names and account numbers before disclosure, and a missed line is a malpractice risk.
  • Sending sensitive contracts to a web tool for redaction is itself a confidentiality breach many clients forbid.
  • Redactions done by drawing black boxes in a viewer can be undone by copy-paste, because the text is still in the file.

The workflow

One licensed pipeline chains these steps end to end. Each step is a tool you can try free on the public site.

  1. 1

    Redact privileged content

    Redact PDF

    Permanently remove text and regions — the underlying content is deleted, not just covered.

  2. 2

    Strip hidden metadata

    Sanitize PDF

    Clear author names, revision history and embedded scripts that leak who edited what.

  3. 3

    Lock the file

    Protect PDF

    Apply a password and disable copying before the document leaves your control.

Try it free, right now

Every tool in this workflow is free on the public site — no signup, nothing uploaded. Run the steps by hand to see the output, then license the automated pipeline for your team.

Why run it on-premise?

True redaction destroys the underlying text rather than hiding it, satisfying privilege and data-protection obligations. Running it on-premise means the unredacted original never touches an outside server.

The Business suite ships as a self-hosted bundle that runs inside your own network, so the documents in this workflow never leave the building. See how deployment works.

Outcome

Disclosure-ready documents in minutes, with redactions that hold up to scrutiny.

Included in the Business license.

See licensing

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