Remove a logo from every page of a PDF

A company logo sits in the header of the cover, in the footer of every slide, and in a table halfway through at a third of the size. You need it gone from all of them before the file goes out, and your PDF editor has a search box that only finds words.

Open the tool Free below twenty pages, in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

A market slide with both company logos in the header and again in the footer, over a Venn diagram of countries and sales figures. — A slide before and after: the two company logos in the header and the two in the footer are each replaced with a labelled black bar.

A slide before and after: the two company logos in the header and the two in the footer are each replaced with a labelled black bar.

Why search and redact misses it

A logo in a PDF is a picture, not text. Search-and-redact tools look through the text layer, and a picture has nothing in the text layer to find. The usual workarounds each cover part of the job: a mark repeated at the same position on every page catches the footer but not the cover, and deleting the image object works only where the logo was placed as one image, not where it was drawn as shapes, flattened into a slide, or scanned.

People asking how to find every copy of the same image in a PDF are usually told the same thing: there is no option for it, go page by page. On a sixty-page deck that is an afternoon, and the copy that gets missed is the small one.

Find it by what it looks like

Draw a box round the logo once. The whole document is then searched for that shape: at any size, anywhere on the page, whether it is in colour, grey, or knocked out in white on a dark banner. Measured on a real 28-page investor deck, picking the large wordmark on the cover found all 26 copies, including 23 footer copies at under half the size, and nothing that was not the mark.

You see every proposed match before anything is covered. Each picked image carries its own sensitivity, offered as the two or three settings your document’s scores actually point at, with how many matches each would give, so you choose between real answers rather than guess a number.

Removed, not covered

A black rectangle drawn over a logo in a PDF editor often leaves the image underneath, still in the file for anybody who moves the rectangle or extracts the images. Here every page is rebuilt from pixels when you export, so what was under a bar is not in the file at all.

Names are handled the same way. Type the company name and it is found in the text, in the lettering of pictures and scans, and inside logos by shape, so the logo and the name go together.

Your file stays on your machine

There is no server. The PDF is opened, searched and rebuilt in your browser tab, and the page is forbidden by its own security policy from sending anything anywhere. Watch the network panel, or disconnect from the internet after the page loads: it keeps working.

The logo wall in a pitch deck

The hardest slide is the row of twenty customer marks, each a different picture, two of which belong to companies that have not agreed to be named. Pick each of those two once and every copy in the deck goes with it, including the one in the case study and the small one in the appendix. Turn on labels and each bar carries [L1], [L2], consistently, so a sentence such as “our customers include” still makes sense with the names taken out.

How to do it, in four steps

Open the PDF. It is read in the tab; nothing is sent anywhere.
Press the pick button and draw a box round one copy of the logo.
Check the proposed matches. Every copy is listed by page, at whatever size it was found, and any one can be turned down.
Press Redact and export. The pages are rebuilt, so the logo is gone rather than hidden.

Who it is for

Anyone sending a deck, report or data pack that must not show whose it is: bankers preparing a teaser, consultants reusing client work, and teams sharing a document with a supplier or an AI tool.

Open the tool

Questions

Will it find the logo if it is a different size on some pages?

Yes. Every copy is searched for across a range of sizes, from about a tenth of the picked size to four times it, and matched on shape rather than exact pixels.

What if the logo is white on a dark background somewhere?

It is found. The match is on the shape, so a mark recast in white on a coloured banner is treated as the same mark.

Is the file uploaded?

No. Everything runs in your browser, and the page is not permitted to send data anywhere. You can check in the network panel.

Is it free?

Documents up to 20 pages are free. Longer documents need a license to export the finished file; everything else works without one.

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