OCR Redaction: Redact Scanned Images And Text In Seconds

Redactable's AI-powered OCR converts scanned image, such as hand-written notes, receipts, and scanned paperwork, into fully searchable documents, so nothing sensitive slips through just because a file wasn't born digital.

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OCR Redaction At a Glance

Compared to 85–92% for traditional systems. Handles poor scan quality, complex layouts, forms, tables, and mixed-format documents.

Adapts to new document types automatically, no templates required.

PII and PHI don't slip through just because a file started as an image.

Conversion runs automatically in the background, then the full Redaction Wizard takes over.

Key Features

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The moment you upload a scanned document, Redactable's proprietary OCR engine converts it into a searchable file. Printed records and image-based PDFs are treated the same as native digital files from that point forward.

Works on: scanned PDFs, TIFFs, PNGs, JPGs, and image-based documents across any industry.

Redactable's AI automatically identifies personally identifiable information across the full document.

Sensitive data doesn't stay hidden just because it started as a scanned image. Our AI-powered OCR doesn't just recognize clean, printed text. It handles complex layouts, varied fonts, and challenging document quality.

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Redactable's OCR is built to handle scan-quality issues during processing, so the text layer it produces is sufficiently accurate for reliable PII detection and redaction. It ensures that nothing slips through because your software couldn't read it.

Fewer OCR errors mean fewer missed redactions.

You don't need a separate OCR tool or a conversion workflow.

Upload your scanned document to Redactable, and OCR runs automatically in the background. From there, you use the same Redaction Wizard you use on any other document.

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Digital redaction certificate showing file name, document ID, redactions count, and redaction history details.

Whether you're managing HIPAA-protected medical records, responding to FOIA requests, processing legal discovery, or handling financial documents, unreadable scans are a liability.

Redactable is SOC 2 Type II certified and supports HIPAA compliance with Business Associate Agreements, ensuring your OCR-processed documents maintain enterprise-grade security standards.

How Redactable's OCR Engine Works

When you upload a scanned document, Redactable automatically cleans up the image, correcting skewed pages, reducing noise, and improving contrast, before converting it into searchable text. From there, AI scans the full document to find sensitive information across 40+ data types, including names, SSNs, medical identifiers, and financial data, then places redactions precisely where each piece of sensitive content appears on the page.

Unlike tools that simply place a black box over content, Redactable permanently replaces the underlying pixel data. The sensitive information is removed from the file entirely, rather than just being hidden. This makes it unrecoverable. Every session also produces a timestamped redaction certificate showing exactly what was removed, where, and by whom.

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As a business owner, it’s important for me to prioritize the safety of sensitive client information that is shared with me. Finding a product like Redactable is a game changer in the legal and insurance industry! It will give you peace of mind knowing that you are safeguarding client information while saving time during your busy workday. It’s a win-win, and I highly recommend Redactable!

Sarah Dunbar Harper

Insurance & Legal Consultant

Redactable automatically recognizes PII including SSN and credit cards. It has easy redaction features that I can bend to blackout bars, watermarks, and the interface is easy to work with. I have been able to use Redactable to ease my redaction process. It does away with the time-consuming and painstaking exercises of redaction which if done manually poses the risk of exposing data.

Ayida Gambarova

Systems Engineer - Retail

It's AWESOME! Love it and have told my colleagues in law about it. This program saved me about 30+ hours on a project with about 1,000 pages of medical records vs. doing it "by hand" and then saved me hours when it saved the redactions and allowed me to "unredact" per a Judge's order. WONDERFUL software!! I taught myself how to use the software in about 5 minutes - no joke. So easy to use!

Philip J Berenz

Attorney at Berenz Law Network PC

Easy to use and very fast. I was able to comb through dozens of documents to redact sensitive information in a matter of minutes for $20. Can't beat that. Good customer service too. Recommend.

Eddie Hsu Pugmire

Investor

My overall experience with Redactable has been great. I can't see myself using another redacting program after using this. Redactable is so easy to use that it has become my go-to program whenever I need to redact a document. The operation is so simple that truly anyone could use it.

Ralph B.

How Redactable Works

Upload your scanned document

Redactable's OCR engine converts it into a searchable file instantly

The software outputs the recognized text in a usable format that preserves the original document structure.

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Redact like any other document

From there, the full Redaction Wizard is available. AI auto-detection, category filtering, keyword search, and manual redaction. Everything works exactly as it would on a native PDF.

Your Scanned Documents Deserve The Same Protection As Digital Documents

See why we’re the #1 redaction software for AI-powered document security, including scanned documents.

Redactable's OCR redaction removes the blind spot that paper-based records create. Upload a scanned document and see it become fully redactable in seconds.