Resecta vs PDF Studio

Resecta redacts PDFs entirely on your iPhone. A black box drawn over text can leave the text underneath readable; Resecta is designed to remove the text in the regions you mark, then checks the output before you share. Find what to redact • Search by text, regular expression or a list of terms, and save the searches you reuse. • Scan looks for 17 kinds of personal information, including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers, and card and account numbers (many are US formats). • Draw a rectangle by hand over anything else. Search and Scan results arrive unselected; nothing is redacted without your selection. Redact Marks show what will be removed. Tap Redact and Resecta rebuilds the PDF from page images, with the marked regions overwritten in the pixels. Secure Rasterization produces image-only output. Searchable Redaction keeps the text outside your redactions searchable, for PDFs that have a text layer. Check before you share Verification runs 7 checks on Secure Rasterization output and 12 on Searchable Redaction output, including text extraction, OCR, a search of the file's bytes, a metadata check, a re-run of the searches you applied, and a detection sweep. What they find is listed, and sharing a file with reported issues asks you to confirm. Verification is a check, not a substitute for your review. Private by design No accounts, no analytics, no data collection. The app makes no network requests of its own, and you can use it in airplane mode. Good to know • PDF files only, up to 50 MB and 500 pages. Encrypted PDFs are not supported. • Resecta doesn't store your documents or edits; share or save the redacted copy to keep it. • Name detection uses an on-device language model from iOS. Where it is unavailable, name results are reduced and the app says so. Free and open source under Apache-2.0. Source: github.com/Merlin1A/resecta

Scan, edit, fill and sign PDFs on your iPhone and iPad with PDF Studio. Completely free, with no ads, subscriptions or account requirement. SCAN AND CREATE • Scan multi-page documents with the camera or create a PDF from photos. • Review pages before saving: rotate, delete and reorder them. • Adjust four corners for perspective correction and choose grayscale, black-and-white or clean scan modes. • Import PDFs from Files, Mail and other apps. EDIT, FILL AND SIGN • Merge, split and reorder pages, or insert a blank page. • Fill existing PDF text fields, checkboxes and choice lists. • Place text, dates and checkmarks exactly where needed on forms without editable fields. • Draw a black or blue signature, drag and resize it on the page, and save it for reuse. • Edit existing text annotations and selected paragraphs. Original styling is preserved where possible; exact layout preservation depends on the PDF. • Highlight, underline, draw, add shapes and notes, and browse your markup in one list. • Add watermarks and page numbers, and edit document properties. READ AND FIND TEXT • Search without case sensitivity and browse results with page numbers and surrounding text. • Use bookmarks, document outlines and remembered reading position. • Comfort Reading offers adjustable text size, sepia/night themes and read-aloud controls. • Recognize scanned text with on-device OCR and create a searchable PDF copy. ORGANIZE AND EXPORT • Organize your documents with folders, tags and favorites. • Undo and redo edits, and recover trashed documents within 30 days. • Export a library backup, including saved signatures, to a location you choose and restore it later. • Compress PDFs, export pages as PNG images and share files. • Protect PDFs with a password, lock the app with Face ID or your device passcode, and create copies with hidden information removed. PRIVACY AND LANGUAGES Documents are processed on your device. PDF Studio does not upload your files to our servers. You control sharing and backup destinations. Core tools work without an internet connection. Interface support for English, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Hindi and Indonesian.