Auto-Redact PII
Scan a PDF for personal data — emails, Indian and international phones, Aadhaar, PAN, cards, UPI IDs, IFSC codes — confirm each PII hit, then redact by burning selections into raster pages with no text layer. Scanned image-only PDFs are refused honestly. Local processing, unlimited saves.
How to Use the Auto-Redact PII
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Frequently Asked Questions
Candidates or automatic decisions?
Candidates only. Patterns are heuristic — a PAN looks like any 10-character code — so Verhoeff (Aadhaar) and Luhn (cards) checks plus structure rules cut false positives, and the review UI cuts the rest. Nothing burns without your checkbox.
What personal data does it find?
Email addresses, Indian and international phones, Aadhaar numbers, PAN, card numbers, UPI IDs, and IFSC codes. Each kind groups separately with its own select-all toggle.
True removal or cover-up?
True removal of the text layer: selected pages are rasterized with black boxes burned in, so no text survives underneath to copy out. Trade-off: files get bigger and text is no longer searchable — unlike visual cover-up, which keeps file bytes.
What about scanned PDFs?
Refused honestly: with no text layer there is nothing to find, and the tool says so instead of faking results. Run OCR first, then redact.
Does my PDF leave the browser?
No — scanning and burning run locally in your browser. Only the final save touches the network — downloads are unlimited.
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Last updated October 2026