Redaction Tools
AI that detects, anonymizes, and redacts PII — entirely on your machine, never the cloud
PII Anomalyzer costs from $249 USD per year, as of 26 September 2026.
Key facts
- Vendor
- Southwest Management Technology
- Headquarters
- Not recorded
- Media
- PDF, Image, Text and logs
- Deployment
- Desktop
- Method
- Manual, AI-powered
- Free tier
- No
- Trial
- 7-day trial
- Entry price
- $249 per year
What it does
- OCR
- Batch processing
- Audit log
- Entity detection
- Air-gapped
Plans and pricing
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free Trial | 7-day trial | 7 days, full feature access · Card required, not charged until trial ends |
| Standard | $249 per year | All features included, no per-page/document limits · Windows and macOS · Licence validated periodically online, 5-day offline grace period
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What will it cost?
100 pages a month
| Plan | Published price | Total | Per page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Trial | 7-day trial | — | |
| Standard | $249 per year | Included in the plan | |
Our assessment
PII Anomalyzer is aimed squarely at people who need to scrub documents before feeding them into AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude, or before legal/FOIA disclosure, research data sharing, compliance audits or outsourcing — without ever sending the source document to a cloud service. Everything runs locally on desktop (Windows and macOS): two AI models work together for context-aware entity detection (names, SSNs, credit cards, medical record numbers, passport numbers) that goes beyond simple regex matching, backed by OCR (multiple engines) for scanned images and fillable-form field detection.
It supports four de-identification modes — Redact, Replace, Highlight, Mask — plus a manual draw-to-redact toolbar for direct control, batch processing across PDF, DOCX, XLSX/XLS/XLSM/XLSB and plain text, and a notable "re-identification" mode that lets a user translate an AI's response to de-identified content back into the original names/values for internal use. An audit trail records detection confidence scores.
Pricing is a single $249/year license (administered through Lemon Squeezy, periodic online validation with a 5-day offline grace period), with a 7-day free trial that requires a card but isn't charged until the trial ends. The vendor's own positioning leans on being far cheaper than Adobe Acrobat Pro, cloud tools like Redactable, or enterprise redaction platforms. There's no published enterprise/team tier — larger arrangements require contacting the company directly.
Strengths
- Fully offline — zero data transmission or telemetry, notable for HIPAA/GDPR-sensitive workflows
- Dual AI models catch contextual PII that pure regex tools miss
- Re-identification mode is a distinctive feature for safely round-tripping AI-assisted work
- No page or document limits
- Single flat license price, no per-seat or per-page metering
- Handles Office formats (DOCX/XLSX) and scanned images, not just PDF
Limitations
- Desktop-only — no browser/online option, so it doesn't fit a fully cloud-based workflow
- Single license only requires a credit card at trial start, even though it's not charged until the trial ends
- No published team/enterprise tier or per-seat licensing on the pricing page
- Periodic online license validation is required despite the offline-processing pitch (5-day offline grace period)
Benchmark PII Anomalyzer
Run our public test documents through PII Anomalyzer and upload what it returns. We score every file, and an editor reviews the result before it is published, credited to you.
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