Redact an address in an image
Addresses bleed across multiple lines: street, building or unit, city, postcode, country. Redacted scans the image, recognises the shape of an address, and masks every line in the same column at once.
What gets covered
- Street addresses with house number and street name
- Apartment, suite, unit, floor, and PO box references
- US zipcodes (5-digit and 9-digit)
- UK postcodes
- City and country lines that sit directly under the street address
- Common road suffixes: Street, St, Avenue, Ave, Boulevard, Blvd, Road, Rd, Drive, Dr, Lane, Ln, Court, Ct
How to redact an address
- Drop or paste the image into Redacted.
- Click Detect text. The address lines get masked together.
- Review the masks — multi-line address propagation should cover every line in the block.
- Pick black box for legal or financial documents, or blur for casual sharing.
- Download the result.
How multi-line propagation works
When Redacted finds an address line via regex (street, postcode, or zipcode), it looks at OCR boxes stacked directly underneath in the same column. If they're plausibly part of the address ("Cheadle Hulme", "United Kingdom"), they get masked too. Same-row noise like status badges or buttons is left alone.
Privacy
Addresses are detected locally in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.
FAQ
Will it mask the city if it's only a city name?
If the city sits directly under a street address or postcode that was matched, yes. If it's standing alone in a different part of the image, no — add a manual mask.
Does it support international addresses?
Street regex covers Western road suffixes. UK postcodes and US zipcodes are recognised. For other postal formats, add a manual mask over the postcode.
Can it detect a PO box?
Yes. "P.O. Box 1234", "PO Box 99", and similar formats are matched.