Download PII Blackout
PII Blackout is a desktop application for offline PDF redaction and automated PII detection. Choose your platform below.
How to use PII Blackout (in-app workflow)
The workflow is designed for offline redaction. PDFs can be text-based or scanned/image-based.
- Select the sensitive data types you want to detect. If you have specific terms to remove, enter them in the custom keywords input.
- Click Add PDF Files to add documents. PII Blackout supports both text PDFs and image/scanned PDFs.
- Click Step1: Analyze & Preview to scan all documents for sensitive content. When analysis finishes, you can choose exactly which items to redact.
- Click Step2: Apply Redaction to apply black redaction across all pages that contain sensitive content. To remove metadata thoroughly, pages with sensitive content are rendered to high-resolution images before the final blackout is applied.
- In the same folder as your input documents, you can review the redacted files and the redaction report. The report shows the redacted terms on each page.
If you don’t see a direct download link, email support@piiblackout.com to request the latest installer.