Introduction

Redact PDF AI is the PDF redaction API for developers.

Use this API to upload one or more PDFs, run asynchronous PII redaction, and download redacted outputs.

• Base URL: https://api.redactpdf.ai
• Auth: X-API-Key header (server-side only)
• API format: asynchronous jobs
• OpenAPI: https://redactpdf.ai/openapi.yaml

Documentation

• Authentication
• Jobs API
• Documents API

Quickstart

• cURL Quickstart
• Node.js Quickstart
• Python Quickstart

Guides

• PII categories
• Error handling
• Idempotency
• Retention
• Rate limits and quotas
• Studio handoff

Explore

• OpenAPI spec and tooling
• Integration examples

Core flow

1. Create a job with one or more PDF files.
2. Poll the job until each document is redacted or error.
3. Download each redacted document output.
4. Optionally delete the job to purge artifacts.

Document status model

• uploaded
• analyzing
• redacting
• redacted
• error

Notes on this markdown docs set

These pages are currently published as static markdown under /docs/*.md for indexing and implementation planning.

Planned future routed paths (without .md) should map 1:1 to this structure.