Pimloc expands document redaction capabilities in Pimloc Redact

LONDON—Pimloc has expanded the document redaction capabilities of its Pimloc Redact platform, adding support for PDFs, Microsoft Office files, emails and scanned documents.

The company announced that the enhanced capabilities extend automated redaction beyond video, audio and image files, allowing organizations to manage multiple forms of sensitive data within a single platform.

According to Pimloc, the software can automatically detect personally identifiable information (PII), including names, addresses and dates, while providing review tools that allow users to verify and modify redactions before files are shared.

“Sensitive data doesn’t arrive in one format. It can be spread across video, audio, images and documents, often within the same project or case,” said Simon Randall, CEO and founder of Pimloc. “Pimloc Redact brings redaction across all four media types into one place, with one audit trail and one standard of accountability.”

The new capabilities are intended for organizations that need to remove sensitive or personal information from documents before sharing them with legal teams, insurers, regulators or individuals submitting data requests.

Users can begin reviewing and manually redacting documents immediately after upload while automated PII detection runs in the background, according to the company.

Pimloc said the platform also allows users to search for specific words, phrases or numbers and apply redactions across multiple occurrences within a document.

The company said redactions can be labeled to indicate why information was withheld and that all detections, edits and approvals are logged to create an audit trail of the review process. Users can also export documents with different redaction formats and remove document metadata before sharing.

Completed files can be distributed through Pimloc Redact's secure file-sharing system using expiring links protected by two-factor authentication, according to the company.

“When you’re working through hundreds of pages of sensitive information, every step you can simplify matters,” Randall said. “We’ve built Document Redaction around how people actually do this work, from finding personal information and checking what should be removed through to exporting and sharing the final file.”

Pimloc said Pimloc Redact is part of a broader platform that also includes Pimloc Transcribe for automated transcription of video and audio and Pimloc Investigate for searching large volumes of footage.

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