Presidio Alternatives

Apps similar to Presidio include Censor, which is free and open source. Other options are eleyed, BlurData, TIM PG and PDF Redaction. You can choose from more than 10 PDF Editors like Presidio for Windows, the web, Mac and Linux.

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  1. Censor icon
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    Censor is a PDF document redaction tool. It permanently removes text and images in redacted areas and can draw rectangles over them. It uses the MuPDF library with its python bindings from the PyMuPDF module.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • GNOME
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  2. eleyed icon
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    Web-based PII redaction for PDFs and text. Nothing stored, no third-party AI. Detects names, IDs, financial and health identifiers. Web + API.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  3. BlurData icon
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    Auto-redact PDFs, screenshots and images on macOS. Detects emails, names, addresses, IPs, URLs, amounts and account numbers automatically. 100% offline. Much more with PII Community presets.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  4. TIM PG icon
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    Delivers offline anonymization and restoration for sensitive data within business AI workflows, powered by Smart Bubble clipboard protection, customizable shortcuts, multi-format document scrubbing, strict local processing, and regional filtering profiles.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • US flagUnited States
    Every copy is a security risk.
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  5. PDF Redaction icon
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    Protect sensitive information with automatic AI redaction and the flexibility of manual editing for free.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  6. nimbril Redact is on-device PDF redaction. It finds the sensitive details in your PDF for you (names, SSNs, card numbers, addresses, even handwritten fields), you approve each one, and it permanently flattens them into the pixels as a flat, image-only PDF with nothing...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. Document Redactor automatically detects and redacts PII (names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, and more) from PDF, DOC, DOCX, and ODT files using local AI models hosted entirely in Europe. Built for GDPR compliance, DSAR responses, legal document processing, and any workflow...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Online
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  8. Redactable is a cloud-based document redaction tool that helps organizations efficiently and securely remove sensitive information from PDF documents.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  9. Permanently removes sensitive content from PDF files — structurally deleted from the file, not just covered with a black box.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Lex Cloak icon
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    Lex Cloak is a desktop app for redacting PDFs on Mac and Windows. Documents are processed on the computer and are not uploaded.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  11. PII Redaction Pro is a Windows desktop tool that detects and permanently removes Personally Identifiable Information from documents without sending a single byte to an external server.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Offline Windows software for permanently redacting sensitive information from PDFs and extracting structured data to Excel.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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