For job seekers
Hide the parts of your hiring documents they don’t need to see.
Pay stubs, offer letters, W-2s, and reference letters carry your salary history, account numbers, SSN, and home address. clean.ink finds them and truly removes them — entirely in your browser, so the file never leaves this device.
Free on-screen preview · $6.59 once to download — unlimited clean exports · no account, no subscription
- 100% local
- Everything runs in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.
- No upload
- Your document is never transmitted, stored, or seen by us.
- True redaction
- Covered content is destroyed in the file, not hidden under a box.
How it works
Upload, auto-detect, review, export. Most documents take under a minute.
- 01
Open your PDF
Drop a pay stub, offer letter, W-2, or reference letter. It loads straight into your browser — nothing is uploaded.
- 02
Let it find the sensitive parts
clean.ink scans the text and flags structured details: SSNs, account and routing numbers, salary, address, phone, and email.
- 03
Review and redact
Accept what it found, dismiss what you want to keep, and draw boxes over anything freeform like an employer name or a reference.
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Export and send
Preview the redaction free — it stays on your device with a watermark. Unlock once to download a clean copy. The redaction is real — the text is gone, not hidden.
What it catches
clean.ink automatically flags the structured details that leak from hiring paperwork. You review every one before it’s redacted, and you can add manual boxes over freeform text like employer names or references.
Social Security numbers
123-45-6789
Bank account & routing numbers
Routing 021000021
Salary & dollar amounts
$92,400 / year
Home & mailing addresses
1450 Elm St, Apt 4
Phone numbers
(415) 555-0148
Email addresses
Your file never leaves this device
Every other PDF tool uploads your document to a server before it can do anything with it. clean.ink can’t — it has no server to upload to. The parsing, detection, redaction, and export all happen in your browser. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and still finish the job.
And the redaction is real. A black box you can copy the text out of isn’t redaction — that’s the common failure, including macOS Preview. clean.ink destroys the underlying content so it can’t be recovered.
The honest version
- Nothing is uploaded. The only network call clean.ink ever makes is to verify a payment — never your document.
- Redaction is irreversible. Output is flattened so the hidden text is gone, not layered under a rectangle.
- Always preview before sharing. The free on-screen watermarked preview lets you confirm the result yourself before you trust it.
Pricing
$6.59 once. Redact forever.
Redact and preview your document free — the preview is watermarked and stays on this device, with no account. One payment of $6.59 removes the watermark from clean exports for this document and every document after it. No subscription, no per-document charge, no account.
Questions
- Is my file really private — does clean.ink upload my document?
- No. clean.ink never uploads your document. PDF parsing, PII detection, redaction, and export all happen locally in your browser. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and still redact and export — there is no server to send the file to.
- Is the redaction permanent and safe to share?
- Yes. clean.ink destroys the underlying content in the exported file rather than drawing a black box over it. Unlike highlight-and-print or a black rectangle in a markup tool, the redacted text cannot be copied out or recovered. Always preview the export to verify before sharing.
- Do I need an account or a subscription?
- No account, no sign-up, no subscription. You drop a PDF and start immediately. The clean export unlock is a one-time purchase tied to a license key you keep — not a login.
- How much does it cost?
- Redacting and previewing are free and unlimited — the on-screen preview is watermarked and stays on your device. To download a clean, watermark-free file you pay $6.59 once for lifetime access — every future document is unlocked, with no subscription and no per-document fee. Your file still never leaves this device.
- What does clean.ink detect on hiring documents?
- It automatically flags structured personal information: Social Security numbers, bank account and routing numbers, salary and dollar amounts, street addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. You review each before it is redacted, and you can add manual boxes over anything freeform like employer names or references.
- What file types are supported?
- clean.ink works with text-based PDFs, and runs on-device OCR for scanned pages when it can recover the text. It supports files up to 20 MB and 25 pages. If a file cannot be safely redacted, clean.ink tells you clearly — and nothing was ever uploaded.