Court-Compliant PDF Redaction & Metadata Scrubber
Maintain Attorney-Client Privilege with True In-Memory Vector Redaction
When preparing legal briefs, discovery productions, or court exhibits for electronic filing (CM/ECF / PACER), public cloud tools (Smallpdf, Adobe Cloud) are an ethical hazard. Uploading client files to third-party servers breaches Attorney-Client Privilege and Model Rule 1.6 (Confidentiality of Information).
PDFSeal performs true in-memory vector redaction and metadata sanitization with zero server uploads.
Need to redact sensitive legal documents safely?
🦭 Open In-Browser Redaction Suite (100% Offline) ➜⚖️ Privilege Safe: Never touches any server. Air-gap compatible.
⚖️ Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2 Compliance
Federal court e-filing mandates redacting:
- Social Security Numbers & Tax IDs (last four digits only)
- Names of minor children (initials only)
- Dates of birth (year only)
- Financial account numbers (last four digits only)
The "Fake Redaction" Disaster
Drawing a black rectangle over text in Word or basic PDF viewers leaves the underlying text stream in the file. Anyone can copy-paste the text out or inspect it in Acrobat.
PDFSeal's True Redaction Engine:
- Scans and targets the exact character coordinates in the PDF operator stream.
- Removes the underlying glyphs completely from the document content stream.
- Permanently draws an opaque rasterized or vector mask over the region.
- Strips hidden document metadata (author names, software tags, revision history, and GPS stamps).