Your first redaction

Here’s the whole workflow, start to finish. It takes a few minutes and nothing leaves your computer.

Redact a document

1. Open a PDF. Launch Omitly and open the document you want to redact — it opens locally, with no upload.
2. Mark what to remove. Drag to draw a box over anything you want removed — text, an image, a signature. See Select text, areas and pages to redact for the other ways to mark content, including the automatic personal-info detector and whole-page redaction.
3. Review before you apply. Check every mark is where you intend — this is your last chance to adjust it. See Review your redactions before saving.
4. Apply & verify. Omitly asks where to save the output (it defaults to the original’s name with .redacted added, in the same folder — you can change either), then removes the underlying content in each marked region, independently verifies it’s gone, writes the redacted PDF, and embeds a signed audit report inside it — all in this one step.
5. Export the certificate if you want a standalone one-page proof to hand over alongside the file.

What you end up with

A redacted PDF where the removed content is actually absent from the file — not hidden under a box — plus an embedded, checkable record of what was removed. See How Omitly removes text permanently and How to verify a redacted PDF.