Whiteout PDF content with a clean cover.
Cover text, marks or visual clutter in a PDF with a clean white area, without confusing a visual edit with secure redaction.
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Cover what should not appear.
Draw a whiteout area over a page and review the result before export. Use permanent redaction instead when sensitive content must be removed securely.
A clear workflow.
In three steps.
Open your PDF.
Choose the document you want to clean up.
Draw a whiteout area.
Choose Whiteout and drag over the visible content to cover.
Review and export.
Check the page preview, then download the edited PDF.
The honest version of correction fluid.
Whiteout does exactly what the physical equivalent does: it covers something up. The content underneath stays in the file, which is fine when the point is presentation rather than secrecy. Blanking an old price before reusing a template, hiding a colleague’s handwritten note before printing a handout, tidying a stray artefact from a scan: all reasonable, none of them secrets.
It is deliberately not sold as a privacy feature, because a white rectangle over a bank account number is exactly the failure mode that has embarrassed governments and law firms. The text is still there and can be copied straight out of the file. When the content is genuinely sensitive, Redact PDF removes it from the exported document instead.
Whiteout areas are pending edits until you export, so you can reposition or remove them, and one dragged past the page edge is clipped to the page with a warning rather than rejected outright.
Questions about this tool.
The things worth knowing before you edit the document.
Does whiteout delete the content underneath?
No. It draws an opaque white area over the page. The underlying text remains in the file and can still be copied or extracted, which is why it is not a privacy tool.
When should I use whiteout instead of redaction?
Use whiteout for presentation edits: covering an outdated price, a stray mark or a note that should not print. Use redaction whenever the hidden content would matter if someone found it.
Can I whiteout part of an image or a scan?
Yes. The area is drawn over the page rather than tied to text, so it works over images, scans, tables and vector artwork alike.
What if I drag past the edge of the page?
The area is clipped to the page and you are told, which matches how redaction already behaves, instead of failing for a gesture the other tool accepted.
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