Drop a file in, get a clean file out. PII Buddy watches a folder and automatically redacts names, emails, SSNs, phone numbers, and 11+ PII types from PDFs, Word docs, and text files. Runs locally — no data leaves your machine.
Everything you need to strip PII from documents before sharing, reviewing, or storing them.
Drop files into a watched folder and get clean versions automatically. Originals are backed up and auto-deleted after 24 hours.
Regex patterns, spaCy NER, document-type awareness, and confidence scoring work together across multiple passes for thorough detection.
Process PDFs, Word documents, and plain text. Output in the same format or convert to text. Your choice.
Every redaction creates a mapping file so you can restore the original PII when needed. Nothing is permanently lost.
Copy text, run the clipboard command, and paste the redacted version. Also supports piped input for scripting workflows.
One-click access from your menu bar. See Arbie's status at a glance — ready, processing, or done.
Three steps. Zero complexity. Arbie handles the rest.
Place documents in the watched folder or use clipboard/pipe mode.
Multi-pass detection finds and replaces PII with tagged placeholders.
Redacted files appear in the output folder with a mapping file for reversal.
Sarah Chen sarah.chen@gmail.com (555) 867-5309 123 Oak Street, Apt 4B SSN: 123-45-6789 Experience at Acme Corp January 2020 - Present
<NAME SC> <<EMAIL_1>> <<PHONE_1>> <<ADDRESS_1>> SSN: <<SSN_1>> Experience at Acme Corp January 2020 - Present
Core redaction is free and runs entirely on your machine. Cloud verification adds an optional LLM-powered accuracy boost.
Up and running in under a minute.
Found PII that wasn't caught? Your feedback makes PII Buddy smarter for everyone.
Let us know what patterns we're missing. Describe the type of PII — never paste actual personal data.
Report on GitHubAfter any redaction, rate the quality directly from the command line:
./run.sh --rate 5 --feedback "great job"
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