Preview, checklist and download

Overview

Preview and Download are the last two steps of the redaction loop. Preview shows you exactly what the saved file will look like, with sensitive text replaced by clean black boxes. The pre-download checklist then surfaces items worth a second look, and the Save dialog lets you name the file before it is written.

How to finish a document

Preview the final output

Press P or click Preview in the sidebar footer to hide the review markup and see the real black-box output. Click Review to return to the markup view if you want to adjust anything. Preview and Review are reversible as many times as you like. Nothing is permanent until you click Download.

The pre-download checklist

Before you download, Lex Cloak shows a short checklist tailored to this document. Just the checks that apply, such as signatures it found or pages where the text was hard to read. Each entry is a warning, not a block, so you can resolve a finding or download once you have reviewed it. The checklist appears every time on purpose, because the few seconds it takes is the step that catches the easy misses.

One case gets its own line. If Lex Cloak detected high-confidence details that belong to a category you have turned off for this document, those details will not be redacted, so the checklist asks you to confirm that specifically, separate from the general confirmations and not covered by Select all. You can Review & include them in one click, or acknowledge and download anyway when leaving that category off is what you intend. The final call stays yours.

Download the redacted PDF

Click Download to save the redacted copy. A Save dialog from your operating system lets you choose the name and folder, with a name filled in for you. The saved copy has the detected content permanently removed, not just hidden behind a black box, and your original file is untouched. If you have seen redactions fail elsewhere, here is why a black box alone does not redact a PDF.

On a large document the export shows its own progress while it works: a checklist that ticks through refining the redaction boxes, applying them, and finishing the file, next to one overall completion percentage. So a long save never looks stuck.

Download several documents as a ZIP

When you have more than one document open, Download All saves them together as a single ZIP file. Each document keeps its own redactions, and you review each one before exporting the set.

What the checklist warnings mean

• Signatures found. The signature scan flagged handwritten signatures. Each is marked for redaction. Review them by eye and use draw mode to cover anything the scan could not handle before you download.
• Detected details left turned off. Lex Cloak found high-confidence details in a category you have muted, so they will not be redacted. This one asks you to confirm on its own line, outside Select all. Use Review & include to add them, or acknowledge and download anyway if leaving that category off is intentional for this document.
• Hard-to-read pages. Some pages had low scan quality, so detection may have missed text on them. Give those pages a closer look before you download.
• Excluded matches. A summary of matches you turned off, by scope. Useful for confirming that an Always exclusion really is something you always want kept.