Smart Redact automatically detects and redacts PII — names, emails, phone numbers, account numbers — across a document using AI pattern recognition, instead of manually finding and marking each instance.
Automatic detection can miss things. Review every match before you apply the redaction — it can't be undone.
| You want to… | Use this tool |
|---|---|
| Names | People named in contracts, emails or reports |
| Contact details | Email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses |
| ID numbers | Government ID numbers such as US Social Security numbers |
| Financial details | Card and account numbers |
| Your own patterns | Custom rules (regex) for things like employee IDs or case numbers |
Court clerks use smart redact to remove witness names, addresses, and SSNs before publishing case documents.
Legal teams smart redact pricing and confidential terms before sharing contracts with subprocessors or auditors.
Healthcare and EU companies smart redact patient/customer PII before releasing documents to comply with privacy regulations.
Contracts, HR files, medical forms, support tickets — any PDF with personal data.
Names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, ID and card numbers, plus your own patterns.
Approve or skip each detected item before anything is removed.
Approved items are removed for good, with a log of what was redacted on which page.
Yes — detected instances are shown for your approval before the permanent redaction is applied.
Smart redact achieves 96-99% accuracy on standard PII (emails, phones, SSNs, credit cards) and 92-96% on contextual entities (names, addresses) using Claude Sonnet 4.5.
Names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, SSNs/national IDs, credit card numbers, dates of birth, IP addresses, passport numbers, bank accounts, vehicle plates, medical record numbers, and 5+ more.
Yes. Define custom regex patterns for org-specific data (employee IDs, internal project codes, custom account numbers). Custom patterns process alongside built-in categories.
No. Smart redact applies cryptographic-grade black-box redaction that cannot be reversed — the original text is permanently destroyed in the output PDF (not just hidden).
Yes. OCR runs first to extract text, then smart redact identifies and blacks out PII in the rendered image, ensuring scanned PII is also permanently removed.
Yes. Each smart redaction job produces a downloadable log showing what category was redacted, how many instances, and on which pages — required for compliance audits.
Smart redact assists with compliance by removing PII permanently. Final compliance certification depends on your organization's overall data handling — consult legal counsel.
3 redactions per day on guest and free accounts. Pro gets 50/day, Business unlimited. No credit card for any tier.
Identifies whether your content was written by AI or a human.
Scans your text and corrects grammatical errors and writing mistakes.
Translates your PDF content into another language while keeping formatting.
Rewrites AI-generated content to sound natural and human.
