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Effortlessly redact scanned documents with OCR redaction technology
Forget the hassle of manually redacting endless amounts of handwritten and scanned documents. VIDIZMO Redactor’s powerful Optical Character Recognition redaction lets you redact text from your media files and helps you find files by using the text that appears within them.
Why it matters
Redact with confidence by using OCR redaction
Go beyond surface-level redaction with optical character recognition redaction
Redact scanned documents and handwritten notes
VIDIZMO Redactor lets you redact all your documents, even if they’re scanned images. Our AI-powered OCR redaction picks up text from your scanned documents and redacts it with ease.
Redact several documents in one go
Dealing with a mountain of scanned document files? VIDIZMO Redactor simplifies the redaction process by allowing you to redact your documents in bulk.
Find redactable information within videos and images
Missed some text worth redacting inside your media files? VIDIZMO Redactor helps you find text appearing in your videos and images from billboards, signs, labels, IDs, and more so you can redact it based on your preferences.
Find media files with OCR-based search
Effortlessly find your videos, images, documents, and audio files by searching for text contained within them. With OCR-based technology, identifying the exact file you need has never been faster or easier.
Redact common data patterns
Redact specific Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as credit card details, names, addresses, phone numbers, and more from scanned documents with pattern detection through OCR.
By industry
Redaction software that's tailored to your needs
Law enforcement
Solving crimes means dealing with a mountain of evidence. At the end of the day, officers are left with PII scattered across body-worn camera footage, 911 calls, interrogation transcripts, and case images and documents. There’s a duty to protect the identities of witnesses, public informants, and victims.
Protect and serve with VIDIZMO Redactor. Redact faces, people, license plates, weapons, and other objects from videos, audio recordings, images, and documents and comply with CJIS, the Criminal Code of 2012, and other strict regulations.
Legal
Upholding the law and ensuring justice are big responsibilities, but so are keeping trust and confidentiality in check. Especially when it’s one of the only ways legal professionals can uphold the sanctity of the law while avoiding consequences like being disbarred.
Let privileged information in legal documents stay privileged. Stay compliant with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Minimize downtime and make the eDiscovery or legal discovery process a breeze by effortlessly redacting evidence before presenting it to the opposition.
Healthcare
Caring for patients is just as important as caring for their sensitive data. Healthcare documents are riddled with personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), making them susceptible to data breaches and potentially resulting in substantial non-compliance penalties.
Protect patient data in healthcare videos, audio recordings, images, and documents with VIDIZMO Redactor. Easily redact sensitive information in various formats, including scanned documents, medical claims, security camera footage, telemedicine consultations, clinical trials, and hospital records. Ensure HIPAA compliance and safeguard PII and PHI.
Government
Accountability comes at a cost. With limited time to respond to FOIA requests, government agencies are overwhelmed with the burden of redacting information before it reaches the public eye. The sheer number of requests and limited resources make this an ever-increasing challenge.
With AI-assisted workflows, VIDIZMO Redactor simplifies the redaction process for videos, audio recordings, images, and documents. When there is a substantial number of media files, government organizations take advantage of bulk redaction capabilities to effortlessly protect large volumes of sensitive information.
Call Centers
In call centers, conversations are currency, and exchanging personally identifiable information (PII) is the standard. When customer conversations get recorded, so does the sensitive information within them. Protecting hundreds and thousands of these calls from breaches and identity theft risks isn’t easy.
Leverage the power of VIDIZMO Redactor to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) such as names, social security numbers (SSNs), addresses, and financial information in millions of call recordings. Say goodbye to manual recording pauses and secure customer information while ensuring PCI DSS compliance.
Education
Knowledge can leave the classroom, but personal information should stay secure on the premises. Educational institutions take on a significant duty to protect the privacy of their students, especially minors.
Protect students’ privacy by redacting their personally identifiable information (PII) from images, videos, audio, and documents. Whether it’s recorded classes, school records, student IDs, or filled forms, ensure that their faces, spoken PII, and private information are redacted to meet data privacy compliances, such as FERPA and COPPA.
Finance
Finance and wealth management has moved from paper to pixel, taking valuable data along for the ride. Account numbers, credit card data, invoices, and policy documents sit in company databases, ready to be preyed upon by malicious threats.
Protect the highly sensitive financial data of clients from tax documents, financial records, bank statements, payment invoices, and other financial documents. Use AI-powered redaction software to comply with PCI DSS and maintain your organization’s trust and reputation.
Transportation
Steering towards trust and confidentiality doesn’t come easy when your passengers aren’t merely travelers but carriers of sensitive PII. Whether it’s images, documents, audio files, or videos, this data must be kept safe from prying eyes.
Protect PII in cargo documents, booking information, and passenger manifests and ensure compliance with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations and the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code.
FAQ
Optical character recognition redaction questions, answered
What is OCR redaction and how does it work?
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) redaction reads the text embedded in scanned documents and images — files that don't have a selectable digital text layer — and converts it into recognizable text so sensitive information can be located and redacted automatically. This lets you redact PII in old scans, faxed records, and photographed pages the same way you would in a native digital document.
Can it redact handwritten text, not just typed text?
Yes. VIDIZMO Redactor pairs OCR with Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) to detect and redact handwritten content in addition to printed or typed text.
What languages and scripts does OCR redaction support?
OCR covers 10+ languages, including Perso-Arabic scripts such as Arabic, Farsi/Dari, Urdu, Sindhi, and Pashto, so scanned documents in these languages can be processed and redacted.
What types of documents can I run OCR redaction on?
Scanned and image-based PDFs, standalone images, and other document formats where text isn't natively selectable. VIDIZMO Redactor also applies layout detection (headers, footers, tables, columns) to keep redactions aligned to the document structure.
Can I control how aggressively OCR redaction flags text?
Yes. Detection confidence thresholds and model size are configurable, and you can run OCR redaction fully automated, with human review in the loop, or fully manual depending on how much oversight a document set requires.
What's a typical use case for OCR redaction?
It's commonly used for FOIA and public records requests involving older or scanned files — police reports, archived case files, and other documents that were never born digital — where sensitive information still needs to be found and redacted before release.
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