In today's digital workplace, sensitive data exists across an ever-expanding variety of document formats. From traditional office documents to multimedia files, from structured data exports to scanned paper archives, organizations must protect sensitive information wherever it resides. Effective data protection requires redaction capabilities that span this entire document landscape without requiring different tools for different formats.
RedactionAPI provides unified redaction across 50+ document formats through a single API. Whether you're processing PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, images, audio recordings, or video files, the same API calls and redaction rules apply. This simplifies integration, ensures consistent protection, and eliminates the need to maintain multiple redaction solutions.
Intelligent Document Processing
Our document processing goes beyond simple text extraction. We understand document structure, preserving the relationship between content elements while applying appropriate redaction. Headers, footers, tables, lists, and other structural elements are maintained in the output, ensuring redacted documents remain usable and professional.
For documents containing multiple content types—like PDFs with embedded images or presentations with audio narration—we process each content type appropriately. Embedded images undergo OCR and visual redaction. Audio tracks are transcribed and analyzed. The result is comprehensive protection across all information channels within a document.
OCR and Scanned Document Processing
Many organizations maintain large archives of scanned documents that may contain sensitive information. These documents present unique challenges: the text exists only as pixels in an image, invisible to traditional text-based redaction tools. Our OCR technology addresses this challenge with high accuracy across document types and languages.
Our neural network-based OCR achieves 99%+ accuracy on standard document scans and maintains high accuracy even with challenging inputs like faded text, skewed pages, mixed fonts, and handwritten annotations. Support for 150+ languages means global document archives can be processed without language-specific configuration.
Preserving Document Integrity
Effective redaction must protect sensitive data while preserving document usability. A heavily processed document that loses formatting, structure, or quality serves no one's needs. Our processing pipeline prioritizes document integrity throughout the redaction process.
For text documents, we maintain fonts, styles, pagination, and layout. For images, we preserve resolution and quality outside redacted regions. For audio and video, we maintain synchronization, quality, and metadata. The goal is output documents that appear and function identically to originals except for the appropriately redacted sensitive content.
