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Remove PDF Links vs. Redacting a PDF — What's the Difference?
Written and fact-checked by The EditPDF AI Team
These two tools are easy to mix up because both "remove" something from a PDF, but they act on completely different things.
Remove PDF Links
- ·Disables the clickable behavior of a hyperlink
- ·The visible text stays exactly as it was, still readable
- ·Use when a link is broken, outdated, or simply unwanted
Redacting a PDF
- ·Permanently covers and removes visible content — text, images, or both — from the page
- ·The underlying content is gone, not just the click behavior
- ·Use when you need to hide sensitive information before sharing a document
Using both together
If a link's visible text itself is sensitive (like a private internal URL), redact the text — removing the link alone would leave the sensitive text still readable.
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