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promptShield

promptShield

Jul 9, 2026 Security & Privacy
data privacy document redaction offline pii redaction

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I built promptShield.ca, a desktop app that finds and redacts personal info (names, emails, SSNs, IBANs, addresses…) in PDFs and Office docs - fully offline. No cloud, no upload, no API key. Looking for honest feedback. I kept seeing people paste sensitive documents into online tools to "clean" them - contracts, medical records, financial statements. The irony: to anonymize a private document, they were shipping it to someone else's server first. For regulated folks (legal, healthc...

Comments (8)

Brisa Wintheiser Brisa Wintheiser 1 month ago

whats the pricing, seems hard to sell vs built-in redaction tools

Randall Ledner Randall Ledner 1 month ago

fully offline is the only way this should work

Lemuel Graham Lemuel Graham 1 month ago

no screenshots of the actual app anywhere, wild choice for a privacy tool

Willis Johnston Willis Johnston 1 month ago

regex or local NER model for detection

Kurt Hoeger Kurt Hoeger 1 month ago

offline by default is smart. handles big files well?

Jermain Kovacek Jermain Kovacek 1 month ago

fully offline processing is the right call for sensitive data

Vern Bayer Vern Bayer 1 month ago

what NER engine under the hood, regex or actual model?

Jeremie Bailey Jeremie Bailey 1 month ago

offline is clutch. does it handle scanned PDFs or just digital ones?