Use the Gallery app to redact & delete PDFs

You can edit and redact PDFs with Google’s PDF editor.

Redact & delete PDFs

You can use the Draw function in Gallery or Google’s PDF reader to cover text or images on a PDF but this doesn’t redact the document. One can still access the underlying images or text. To fully redact a text, use a dedicated redaction tool, like Adobe. Learn how to remove sensitive content from PDFs.

Tips: Prevent data leaks from bookmark titles.

  • When you delete pages in the ChromeOS Gallery app PDF editor, the corresponding bookmarks that link to the deleted pages remain intact.
  • If the titles of those PDF bookmarks contain sensitive info, deleting the corresponding pages won’t remove that info.
  • You can’t use ChromeOS Gallery to edit PDF bookmarks, so you can’t change titles or targets, or delete or add bookmarks.

Redact or delete a PDF

You can use a dedicated PDF redactor like the one provided by Adobe to redact info from a PDF document. Learn how to remove sensitive content from PDFs.

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