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PDF PII Redactor — Remove Personal Data, Not Just Cover It

Finds emails, phone numbers, SSNs, card numbers and more in a PDF and deletes them from the file, then draws the black box. Verified after saving: if the text is still extractable, the document is not charged.

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You can access the PDF PII Redactor — Remove Personal Data, Not Just Cover It programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "pdfUrls": ["https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("northbound_works/pdf-pii-redactor").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Redact PDF Online - Permanently Remove Personal Data API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use PDF PII Redactor — Remove Personal Data, Not Just Cover It API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

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