Drop five, twenty, two hundred files. RedactLocal detects PII on your machine and pulls you straight into the first document the moment it's ready... the rest keep processing in the background while you review.
Documents processed through cloud AI platforms lose attorney-client privilege. The moment privileged text reaches a third-party server, the privilege is waived.
United States v. Heppner, No. 1:25-cr-00847 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 2026)
Drag a PDF into RedactLocal. Text is extracted on your Mac using the same engine that handles redaction. Nothing leaves your machine.
Every detected name, SSN, phone number, and address is highlighted with color-coded labels. Uncheck anything that's a false positive. You're in control.
One click. The original text is permanently deleted from the PDF, not just covered up. Metadata stripped. The output file is safe to share with any cloud tool.
Cloud redaction tools ask law firms and hospitals to do the one thing they can't: hand sensitive files to a server they don't control. We built an alternative.
Run Little Snitch, Wireshark, or any network monitor while RedactLocal is open. You'll see zero outbound connections. Not even telemetry.
The AI model ships inside the app. No API keys, no cloud dependency. Airplane mode, air-gapped lab, SCIF... it just works.
Re-parse the output PDF. The original text is gone, not hidden under a rectangle. We show you the before/after diff so you can prove it.
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