PII Redactor

The PII Redactor replaces personally identifiable information in a PDF, CSV, Excel, image or plain-text file. Use it to clean a document before sharing it with a cloud AI or any other service, or before saving a sample statement.

How it works

1. Drag and drop a file onto the tool.
2. Click Auto-detect to find likely personal information. For a statement, it finds the account owner's name, address and account numbers; the general options scan more broadly, including images.
3. Review and edit the list of rules — add anything missed, remove false positives.
4. Click Redact, preview the result, then save it.

Different files, different handling

• PDFs are changed minimally, so they are subject to the character limitations of the PDF's own fonts.
• Images have personal information blacked out rather than replaced.
• CSVs can be given synthetic data instead of redacted real data: each transaction row is replaced with invented ones. Or redact specific text throughout, as for a PDF.
• Excel files have every transaction row removed, keeping the headers and any preamble or footer.

By default, embedded images (a scanned check, say) are also read for matching text. Tick Skip Images to redact the text layer only. Redaction settings can be saved and reused.