Redact screenshots and photos: auto-detect emails, IDs, and names (plus your own custom rules), drag boxes over anything else, and burn them into the pixels — entirely on your device.
Redact screenshots and photos: auto-detect emails, IDs, and names (plus your own custom rules), drag boxes over anything else, and burn them into the pixels — entirely on your device.
Screenshots and phone photos leak more than people expect: an email in a chat thread, an account number on a statement, a name on a badge, a case number on a form. GhostImage Redact reads the text in the image on your device, finds emails, phone numbers, SSNs, card and IBAN numbers, names, and anything matching your own custom rules (client names, employee IDs), and suggests a box over each one.
Accept the suggestions, drag boxes over anything else — faces, signatures, license plates — and apply: the boxes are burned into the pixels, so what's underneath is gone rather than hidden, and the saved image is re-encoded without its EXIF, GPS, or camera metadata. The image never leaves your device. Free, no signup.
How it works
Drag the image onto the page or click to browse. It opens in the GhostImage studio with Black out (redact) pre-selected.
Click Auto-detect to find emails, numbers, and names in the image's text, accept the suggestions you want, and drag a box over anything else sensitive.
Apply burns the boxes into the pixels and re-encodes the image without its hidden metadata. Download the redacted copy straight from your browser.
Yes. The boxes are painted into the image's pixels and the image is re-encoded, so the covered content is destroyed — not a removable layer. Keep your original if you might need it.
Emails, phone numbers, SSNs, card and IBAN numbers, IP addresses, and dates by pattern; names, organizations, and places with an on-device model (auto-loaded on capable devices, offered on phones and slow connections); plus any custom rules you add — word lists or patterns like EMP-12345. It reads text only, so draw boxes by hand over faces, signatures, or plates.
Yes. The redacted image is a fresh encode, so EXIF, GPS location, camera model, and other embedded metadata from the original are not carried over.
No. Text recognition, detection, and the redaction all run in your browser; the OCR engine's code is downloaded from a CDN, but your image is never sent anywhere.
Why a black rectangle over PDF text usually hides nothing, and what real redaction removes.
Every GhostImage tool runs entirely in your browser. Your file is never uploaded — there's no upload endpoint to send it to.