Drop PDFs and I'll look through their text.
PII Scanner
Scan the text of PDFs for Social Security numbers, dates of birth near a label, payment card numbers, phone numbers and email addresses. See the page and a masked match, and export CSV without the full values.
Good to know
- This scan can miss items, and it can flag things that are not personal data. A clean result does not mean a document is clean, so review it yourself.
- Pages with little or no text layer are flagged. Run OCR PDF first, and OCR can misread too.
- Exports hold masked values by default. To remove what you find, use Redact PDF.
Your files stay on your machine
This tool runs entirely inside your browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or sent to a server — close the tab and every trace is gone.
These are the free ones — see the full suiteHow big a file can it take?
There is no upload, so there is no upload limit — but the work happens in this tab, which means your browser’s memory is the budget. Nothing here will refuse a file for being large; a big enough one simply gets slow and, eventually, reloads the tab. The figures below are rules of thumb on a desktop browser, not enforced caps. On a phone or tablet, expect a good deal less.
- Files are read one at a time, so several thousand pages in total are comfortable.
- Only patterns in text are checked. Names, addresses and anything in an image are outside what this scan can see.
Password-protected PDFs are declined whatever their size — unlock the file first. If a run does die on a long document, splitting it into volumes and working through them one at a time is the reliable way round it.