Sharing ID documents without leaking them
Mask, redact and strip your Aadhaar, PAN and other IDs before you send them.
Tools for this
- Find and black out Aadhaar and PAN numbers automaticallyChecksum-verified detection, every match shown for review, then true removal — or UIDAI-style masking that leaves the last four digits.Open Mask Aadhaar & PAN
- Permanently remove anything sensitive by handDraw over names, addresses or figures and have the underlying content genuinely deleted, not covered.Open Redact PDF
- Strip hidden metadata before you share a fileDocuments carry author names, software details and edit history you never intended to send.Open Sanitize PDF
- Lock a finished document with a passwordReal 256-bit encryption for a file you are about to email, applied before it leaves your device.Open Protect PDF
- Sign a document without printing and scanning itDraw, type or upload a signature and place it on the page; the signature never leaves your browser.Open Sign PDF
- Check whether a document's text is really machine-readableUseful before sharing: it shows what a machine can actually extract from each page.Open PDF Text Checker
Every copy of your ID is a place it can leak
An Aadhaar or PAN number ends up in an extraordinary number of ordinary documents: rental agreements, loan files, job applications, KYC forms, GST paperwork, college admissions. Each of those documents gets emailed to someone, uploaded to a portal, and forwarded onward, and every copy is another place the number can be read by someone who has no business reading it. India's own guidance is to share a masked Aadhaar wherever possible, showing only the last four digits, precisely because a full number in the wrong hands enables real fraud.
The tools here are about sharing what a form legitimately needs while withholding what it does not. You can mask the ID numbers in a document, permanently remove details rather than merely covering them, strip the hidden metadata that photographs and scans carry, and lock a finished file with a password before it leaves your hands.
Why doing this locally is the whole point
There is an obvious contradiction in uploading your Aadhaar to an unknown website in order to hide your Aadhaar. Most online redaction and masking services do exactly that: your document travels to their server, is processed there, and comes back — and you have no way to know what happened to the original in between. For the single most sensitive file most people own, that is not a reasonable trade.
Every tool in this cluster runs inside your browser. There is no backend and no API endpoint on this site, so there is no server that could receive your document even in principle — you can watch the network tab while you use them and see that nothing carrying your file is ever sent. That is also why the detection here is deterministic rather than a guess: an Aadhaar number is validated against its built-in Verhoeff checksum, and a PAN against its exact format, so ordinary twelve-digit reference numbers are not mistaken for identity numbers. You review every match before anything is touched.
Covering something up is not the same as removing it
The most common mistake when hiding information in a PDF is drawing a black box over it. On screen and in print it looks hidden; in the file the text is still there, and anyone who opens the document in an editor can move the box and read what was underneath. It is a genuine cause of leaked documents, including from organisations that should know better.
The redaction and masking tools here remove the underlying content rather than covering it: the affected page is rebuilt so the hidden characters are simply gone from the file and cannot be selected, copied or recovered. Combined with stripping metadata — the hidden author names, device details and edit history that documents quietly carry — that is the difference between a document that looks safe and one that is.
Other things people come here to do
- Photo, signature & PDF for exam and job formsMake your photo, signature and documents fit the form's exact limits.
- Getting a document accepted by a portalCombine, shrink, straighten and convert until the upload goes through.
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