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Redaction That Runs Without Anyone Opening the File
A records unit that opens every file by hand has a throughput ceiling set by headcount. Automated redaction removes the ceiling for routine work, and keeps the review step for the work that warrants it.
How Bulk Redaction Works
Classes are selected, the asset is processed, and a redacted rendition is produced, with no operator opening the file. Selectable per job: the object and PII classes to detect, the masking style, the confidence threshold, and the output policy that decides what happens to the original.
Review remains available. Automation is the default path for volume, not a replacement for judgement on a consequential release.
What Bulk Redaction Covers
Bulk, permissioned per format
Redaction runs across a set of files rather than one at a time. The permission to do so is granted per format, so an operator can be authorized for bulk document redaction without being authorized for bulk video. Audio, video, document and image are four separate rights. Processing is queue-based and runs unattended, so a batch submitted at the end of a day is worked overnight. Volume has been exercised at roughly two million recordings a year.
Templates for recurring types
Where documents share a layout, the regions carrying personal data sit in the same places. A template records those regions and the classes to detect, and applies them to every document of that type. Bulk redaction takes a template, which is what makes a queued batch consistent rather than dependent on which operator submitted it. A form that arrives every week is processed the same way each week.
API
A REST API with an OpenAPI specification and OAuth client-credentials authentication, for upload, processing, redaction and retrieval. Two shapes are common: - Fully automated — upload, trigger analysis, start the job, receive status by webhook, retrieve the output. Nothing human in the loop. - Hybrid — upload by API, AI detects, analysts review in Studio Space, your system retrieves the approved output.
FAQ
Bulk and Automated Redaction questions, answered
Can redaction run without an operator?
Yes. A queue-based pipeline takes a source location, applies a policy and writes the output, with no operator opening a file. That is what makes an archive tractable rather than a project.
Is bulk redaction permissioned separately from single files?
Yes, and it is granted per format. An operator can be authorised for bulk document redaction without being authorised for bulk video. Audio, video, document and image are four separate rights.
Can settings be reused across recurring document types?
Yes. Reusable templates fix the detection classes, the framework, the masking style and the output policy for a document type, so a recurring form does not need configuring each time it arrives.
When do batches run?
Processing is queue-based and runs unattended, so a batch submitted at the end of a day is worked overnight and waiting the next morning.
What limits throughput?
Bulk processing is queued work, and throughput follows available AI processing capacity. Volume has been exercised at roughly two million recordings a year on a single deployment.
Size It Against Your Backlog
Tell us the volume, the formats and the deadline. We will tell you what it takes to clear it.