Anonymize. Comply. Ship. CloviRedact strips personally identifiable information out of PDF, DOCX, and text files in seconds — stateless, self-hostable, and audit-ready for regulated teams.
A live product on the CloviTek platform — LLM-grade PII detection, permanent pixel-level removal, and structured audit output for compliance teams.
CloviRedact is an AI-powered document anonymization platform that removes personally identifiable information from PDFs, DOCX, and plain-text files in seconds. It runs as a privacy-first, self-hostable service with a REST API and drag-and-drop web UI — so teams automate compliance workflows without sending sensitive data to third-party clouds.
CloviRedact sits between free DIY toolkits that take weeks of engineering to stand up and enterprise-only managed services locked behind procurement. It gives regulated SMB and mid-market teams a self-hostable, developer-first redaction engine with detection accuracy they can actually verify.
Document anonymization sits in a privacy-compliance segment estimated at a $1.4B serviceable market growing around 15% a year — with a wide gap between DIY toolkits and enterprise-only services.
Regex-based tools match fixed patterns and miss the PII that hides in context. CloviRedact uses LLM-backed entity recognition to reach materially higher recall — and flags ambiguous detections with confidence scores so a human can make the call.
The real capability set behind CloviRedact — designed, built, and run by our composed AI team.
Detects 40+ entity types — names, SSNs, emails, medical record numbers, dates of birth, IP addresses and more — flagging ambiguous detections with confidence scores for human review.
Native PDF, DOCX, and TXT support with integrated OCR for scanned documents; redacted output is reconstructed in the original format.
Consistent token replacement — “John Smith” becomes “PERSON_001” across the whole document — keeping referential integrity for discovery and AI training pipelines.
Structured redaction logs in JSON or CSV — entity counts, confidence scores, and positions — ready for GDPR Article 30 record-keeping and HIPAA audit trails.
Higher tiers add a REST API, Python and Node.js clients, webhook notifications, and batch ZIP processing for enterprise pipelines.
Enforces all 18 Safe Harbor identifiers with compliance reporting and role-based access control, plus BAA support on team and enterprise tiers.
Higher tiers unlock a container image for air-gapped, on-premise deployment, with custom LLM backend selection at the enterprise tier.
A drag-and-drop interface for non-technical users, with ZIP batch processing for teams running high-volume document workflows.
Clean and redact PDF documents from CloviPDF prior to client or public delivery, without leaving the fleet.
Anonymize, comply, and ship — CloviRedact is one of the platforms our AI team builds and operates end to end.
Upload a PDF, Word document, or image file. CloviRedact accepts scanned documents via OCR and native digital files for privacy-sensitive content detection.
Names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, dates of birth, financial identifiers, and custom patterns are found automatically — every detection is shown for review before redaction.
Accept AI-detected redactions, manually add areas to black out, or remove false positives. The preview shows exactly how the final document will look.
Download the permanently redacted file with black bars applied at the pixel level — the underlying text is removed, not hidden — and all metadata stripped from the output.
How CloviRedact stacks up against legacy redaction tooling and manual workflows on the things compliance teams actually care about.
| Feature | CloviRedact | Legacy redaction tools | Manual / DIY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent pixel-level text removal | Text removed at the data level | Not available | Not available |
| OCR-based redaction for scanned documents | Built-in OCR pipeline | Not available | Not available |
| AI auto-detection of PII & financial identifiers | LLM-grade detection | Not available | Not available |
| Custom regex pattern support | Domain-specific patterns | Not available | Not available |
| Metadata stripping on all exports | Stripped on every file | Not available | Not available |
Comparison based on publicly available capabilities of common redaction approaches as of 2026. Details may change.
CloviRedact composes shared platform infrastructure and a purpose-built detection engine — the integrated foundation that makes it faster to ship and stickier to keep.
Because CloviRedact is built on the CloviTek platform engine, it inherits shared authentication, billing, and subscription infrastructure on day one — and plugs directly into sibling products in the fleet.
app_session_id across the fleetCloviRedact opens to your own tooling through a developer API, webhooks, and connectors for storage, automation, and audit pipelines.
Runs compliance, e-discovery, and auditable redaction workflows across firms of 150–400 staff and needs a defensible trail on every document.
Professional tier
Handles GDPR Subject Access Requests and resume-pipeline anonymization for 200+ employee orgs, wiring redaction into HRIS integrations.
Professional tier
Needs HIPAA-safe de-identification for LLM fine-tuning and AI data-prep cleanup at Series A/B startups.
Enterprise tier
Owns audit-trail documentation, regulatory record-keeping, and BAA requirements across regulated document flows.
Enterprise tier
Evaluates PII libraries API-first — Python and Node SDK quality, webhook support, and batch processing at scale.
Professional / EnterpriseSanitize documents before sharing with opposing counsel or e-discovery platforms — a multi-hour manual task compressed to minutes.
Locate and redact PII across multiple SaaS tools before producing records to a data subject.
Strip PII from intake forms, discharge summaries, and clinical notes before loading them into LLM fine-tuning pipelines.
Anonymize resumes and performance reviews before export to analytics vendors or archival storage.
Remove PII from internal documents before ingesting them into knowledge bases or LLM-powered assistants.
Run redaction inside strict data-residency boundaries for healthcare, financial services, and government workloads.
The surfaces your team works in every day — the detection panel, the pseudonymization diff, and the batch upload zone — a real screen from CloviRedact is shown below, alongside interface illustrations.
A real document run through CloviRedact’s own detection engine — PII (email, phone, SSN, IP) located and masked automatically. Party data is fictional; redaction bars are the genuine engine output.
CloviRedact ships continuously. Here's what's live today, what's landing next, and where the product is headed.
CloviRedact composes shared platform infrastructure and sibling products — the integrated ecosystem that makes each product faster to build and stickier to keep. Signing up with CloviTek gives you the whole connected system of value, not a single tool.
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