Stop Text Being Copied - Free Online Browser Tool

Rasterise every page to an image so no text, links or data can be selected, copied or searched.

You can let someone read a document without letting them lift its text. The only way to do that for real is to remove the text: this tool re-renders each page as a picture of itself, so the words you can see are no longer characters in the file. Nothing can be selected, copied, searched or read aloud from the result.

This stop text being copied utility runs completely inside your web browser. Your document is opened locally and processed on your own device using JavaScript and WebAssembly, so your file is never uploaded to any server. There is no signup, no watermark and no limit on how many documents you can handle.

  • 100% client-side - files never leave your device
  • Instant processing, no upload wait
  • Works on desktop, tablet and mobile
  • Free forever, no account required

Common next steps: Flatten PDF (Make It Permanent), Sanitise PDF for Sharing, Bulk Keyword Redaction.

How to Use the Stop Text Being Copied Tool

Four steps, and the whole thing runs locally on your own device.

  1. Load the PDF

    Drop in the document whose text you want to protect.

  2. Choose a quality

    Higher DPI looks sharper and prints better but produces a larger file. 150 DPI suits email and the web; 300 DPI suits print.

  3. Pick the pages

    Lock every page, or name the pages that matter and leave the rest as real text.

  4. Download the locked PDF

    Each chosen page comes back as an image. The layout is identical; only the selectable text is gone.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this set a password?

No. PDF encryption is not available in the browser, so no tool here sets one. What this does is genuinely remove the text from the file, which is a stronger protection than a permission flag but a different thing.

Can someone still get the text out?

Not from the file. There is no text layer left to copy. The remaining ways through are outside the file: photographing the screen, or running OCR on a printout, which no PDF tool can prevent.

Why is the file bigger?

Because an image of a page is larger than the instructions that draw it. Size grows with DPI and with colour; black and white at 150 DPI is the smallest useful setting.

Will the document still print?

Yes. It prints exactly as it looks on screen, at the resolution you chose. Set 300 DPI if it is going to a printer.

Does this affect accessibility and screen readers?

Yes, and this is the real trade-off. A screen reader needs a text layer to follow, so a fully locked document becomes inaccessible to anyone using one. Lock only the pages that carry the sensitive parts, and leave the rest as text.