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Smart Redact

Instant, Accurate Redaction You Control

Smart Redact uses advanced natural language processing to instantly surface sensitive data for removal. With intuitive tools, you maintain complete control to review, adjust, and publish documents with permanent, untraceable redactions.

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Built for speed, control, and enterprise-grade security

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Identify and redact sensitive data in seconds

Automate manual redaction workflows and free your team to focus on higher-value work with instant detection of over 30 categories of PII including unstructured data that pattern-based tools miss.
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Complete coverage for complex documents

Advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) ensures accurate detection of unstructured PII that manual or basic pattern searches miss, at enterprise scale.
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Instantly redact scanned files

Automatically find and redact sensitive PII from scanned documents and image files, dramatically improving compliance coverage.
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Identify and redact sensitive
data in seconds

Instantly identify over 30+ categories of PII—including unstructured data that pattern-based tools miss—automating manual redaction workflows and freeing your team to focus on higher-value tasks.

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Complete coverage for complex documents

Advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) ensures accurate detection of unstructured PII that manual or basic pattern searches miss, at enterprise scale.

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Instantly redact scanned files

Automatically find and redact sensitive PII from scanned documents and image files, dramatically improving compliance coverage.

Total visibility. Complete control.

Every suggested redaction is grouped by category and quality-tested for precision, giving you total visibility and complete control to instantly add, adjust, or remove any redaction.

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Organized, validated suggestions

Suggestions are automatically validated against strict confidence thresholds and grouped by category, ensuring your time is spent on reliable outputs, not false positives.

Manual control when needed

Search and redact specific terms across your document or use pixel-perfect drawing tools to permanently remove images, signatures, visual elements, or freeform text—capturing anything AI detection may miss.

 

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Preview redactions in
real time

Toggle preview mode to spot any gaps and check for quality before creating and publishing your fully redacted file.

 

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Organized, validated suggestions

Suggestions are automatically validated against strict confidence thresholds and grouped by category, ensuring your time is spent on reliable outputs, not false positives.

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Manual control when needed

Search and redact specific terms across your document or use pixel-perfect drawing tools to permanently remove images, signatures, visual elements, or freeform text—capturing anything AI detection may miss.

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Preview redactions in real time

Toggle preview mode to spot any gaps and check for quality before creating and publishing your fully redacted file.

Built to meet the highest security standards

Certified to the highest global security standards, every file is encrypted, stored temporarily during redaction, and each redaction permanently strips all visible and hidden data.

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Proven security and compliance

Nitro meets internationally recognized standards and certifications to protect your data and documents, including ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, and the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

Permanent, untraceable redactions

All documents are encrypted, stored temporarily during processing, and deleted once the task is complete. They are permanently stripped of all relevant metadata and scripts, rendering them completely unrecoverable.

Strict access controls

Secure processing ensures your data is never used for training generative AI. It is protected by encryption during transmission and storage with strictly controlled access.

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Top Features

Interact with, create, edit & review PDFs on your Windows device
Interact with, create, edit & review PDFs on your Mac device
Interact with, create, edit & review PDFs on your iOS device
Edit text and images, reorder and delete pages in a PDF
Convert PDFs and export to Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Reassign licenses in the web-based Admin Console
Add security & password protect PDF files
Turn scanned documents into editable searchable PDFs
Compare two versions of a PDF to review all differences
Access advanced 24/7 tech support 2+ users 2+ users
Access Nitro Analytics to understand PDF software usage, ROI, and sustainability savings
Automatically extract table & form data from PDFs with Nitro Table & Form Extract
Summarize, rewrite, and extract key data from your document with Nitro AI Document Assistant
Easily create, fill, sign, send, and store forms
Automatically create fillable forms with Nitro Automatic Form Creation
Redact PDFs with AI-assisted Smart Redact to permanently remove sensitive information
Enable single sign-on for users across the organization

Interact with PDFs

View, interact and comment on PDF content from your computer, mobile device or web browser
Track activity across desktop, mobile and web for documents sent for viewing & reviewing
Access, edit and store files in your Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive accounts
Compare two versions of a PDF to review all differences
Measure the distance, area and perimeter of objects in PDFs
Open PDFs are protected by Microsoft Information Protection solutions, including Azure Information Protection and Microsoft 365.

Create PDFs

Convert documents and images to PDF files
Create PDFs from any application that prints
Convert Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint files to PDFs
Create, protect and send PDFs in popular Microsoft 365 apps for Windows
Combine multiple documents and file types into one PDF file
Convert web pages to interactive PDFs, complete with links
Prevent others from copying or editing information in PDFs
Create a password-protected PDF
Create and export PDFs on your mobile device
Use one-click creation of rich PDFs within Microsoft 365
Turn scanned paper documents into instantly searchable and editable PDFs with fonts that match the original
Convert and validate PDFs for compliance with ISO standards like PDF/A
Convert to rich & plain text
Create and validate PDFs to meet accessibility standards for people with disabilities
Extract text and images
Integration with Office 365, Sharepoint 365, OneDrive for Business, Dropbox, Box, Google Drive
Copy and paste selected parts of a PDF file with formatting intact
Batch create PDF files
Create PDF from File Explorer context menu
Create PDF from Finder/iCloud
Create accessible documents, tag creation, embed fonts, voice over

Edit & Review PDFs

Edit PDF text and images with full-page paragraph reflow
Turn PDFs into editable Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint files
Insert, delete and organise pages in a PDF
Convert PDFs to JPG, TIFF or PNG image formats
Split a PDF by extracting one or multiple pages
Add bookmarks, headers, numbering and watermarks
Add or edit text and images on your tablet and mobile phone
Reorder, delete or rotate PDF pages on your iOS tablet
Redact to permanently remove sensitive visible information in PDFs
Add audio to PDFs
Add Bates numbering to legal documents
Visual rotation of images and pages
Quicksign PDF documents
Work with certificate signatures
Add comments to PDFs with a full suite of commenting tools including text editing, highlighter, and sticky notes
Turn paper or Word docs into fillable PDF forms
Automatically optimize PDFs to reduce file size and customize settings
Enhance PDF forms by adding interactivity with JavaScript
Mark PDFs with stamps, such as “approved” or “draft”

Support & Platform Benefits

Additional compliant security (HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR)
Enable single sign-on for users across the organization
Access advanced 24/7 tech support 2+ users 2+ users
Access support through the community forum & knowledge base
Access support through Nitro AI Knowledge Assistant
Customer success manager for white glove deployment & support for eligible customers for eligible customers
Access Nitro Analytics to understand PDF software usage, ROI, and sustainability savings

What is Nitro PDF?

Nitro PDF is a full-featured PDF editor that enables you to create, edit, convert, sign, and secure PDF documents.

It is designed for individuals, small businesses, and enterprises as a cost-effective alternative to Adobe Acrobat, combining powerful functionality with an intuitive interface that works across devices.

Nitro PDF is available in three plan tiers: Standard, Plus and Classic.

How is Nitro PDF different from Adobe Acrobat?

Nitro PDF provides the same core editing, signing, and collaboration features as Adobe Acrobat but at a more affordable price point.

With transparent licensing, no hidden fees, and a simpler user experience, Nitro PDF is widely recognized as one of the strongest alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for both individuals and businesses.

Can I try Nitro PDF for free?

 Yes. Nitro PDF offers a 14-day free trial with full access to editing, converting, signing, and security features. No credit card is required for the trial, and all features are unlocked.

Does Nitro PDF support integrations with other business tools?

Yes. Nitro PDF integrates with software such as Microsoft Office suite, OneDrive, Dropbox, and other platforms.

These integrations simplify document workflows and make it easy to create, edit, and share PDFs directly within your existing environment.

What is Smart Redact in Nitro PDF?

Smart Redact is an AI-assisted tool that automatically detects and removes sensitive information from PDFs. It identifies 30+ types of personally identifiable information (PII)—like names, addresses, ID numbers, and financial data—and allows you to review or adjust redactions before finalizing your file.

How does Nitro Smart Redact keep my information secure?

Smart Redact processes files in a temporary session with no storage or data retention. When you apply redactions, all visible and hidden content—including metadata and scripts—is permanently removed, ensuring your documents meet the highest standards of privacy and compliance.

Is Nitro PDF secure? Is it compliant with global regulations?

Yes. Nitro PDF meets international standards for data protection, including SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and QTSP compliance, helping businesses keep sensitive documents secure. 

Is Nitro PDF available for both teams and individuals?

Yes. Nitro PDF is designed to support both individual users and organizations of any size.

Single users can access all the core editing, conversion, and signing features, while businesses benefit from advanced options like volume licensing, centralized deployment, and team collaboration tools.

This flexibility makes Nitro PDF a practical choice for freelancers, SMBs, and large enterprises alike.

Does Nitro PDF allow collaborative editing?

Absolutely. Nitro PDF enables teams to collaborate directly on documents with tools for commenting, annotating, and reviewing in real time.

Multiple users can share feedback, track changes, and resolve comments efficiently, ensuring smoother document workflows without relying on email back-and-forth or multiple file versions.

What kind of support does Nitro provide?

Nitro offers dedicated customer support, including onboarding, training, and troubleshooting resources, to ensure a smooth experience for your team.

We also offer resources such as our Knowledge Hub, Knowledge Assistant AI tool, and community forum.

Simple, transparent pricing that scales

Plans designed to scale with how you actually work, based on the number of people doing redaction and the volume of documents you're processing.

Nitro Smart Redact
Standard

250 documents/year
For individuals and small teams handling day-to-day redaction.
per user/year
Tax calculated at checkout
Includes sales tax

Nitro Smart Redact
Plus

500 documents/year
For growing teams with high, consistent redaction volumes.
per user/year
Tax calculated at checkout
Includes sales tax

Nitro Smart Redact
Enterprise

5,000+ Documents
For large organizations processing thousands of documents across multiple departments.
Volume Discounts
Unlimited Seats

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