About The Text Redactor

Text Redactor masks common sensitive values in pasted text, including email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, URLs, and optional custom regex matches. It is useful for sanitizing logs, support tickets, notes, examples, and documents before sharing them.

Redaction runs locally in your browser. The output should still be reviewed before publishing or sending, especially when the input contains unusual formats or legal, medical, financial, or customer data.

How to Redact Text Online

1. Paste the text that contains values you want to mask.
2. Select the redaction types you want to apply.
3. Optionally enter a custom JavaScript regex pattern.
4. Click Redact Text and review the sanitized output.

Choosing Redaction Options

Built-in patterns:
- Use the email, phone, IP, and URL options for common data cleanup.
- Built-in patterns are broad utility matches, not a compliance guarantee.

Custom regex:
- Use this for IDs, account numbers, ticket numbers, or project-specific formats.
- Test custom patterns on a small sample before using them on long text.

Common Use Cases

• Sanitize support tickets before sharing with another team.
• Mask contact details in examples or documentation.
• Clean logs before pasting them into an issue tracker.
• Redact project-specific identifiers with a custom regex.

Quick FAQ

Does pasted text leave my browser?
No. Redaction is designed to run in the browser.

Can I rely on this for final compliance review?
No. Use it as a helper, then review manually or with approved compliance tooling before release.

Why did a value not get redacted?
The pattern may not match formatting variations, punctuation, casing, line breaks, or Unicode lookalike characters.

What should I check before sharing?
Search the output for original names, emails, IDs, tokens, partial values, and context that still reveals sensitive information.