AI anonymization explained

Human review

AI flags personal data in documents. Your team validates suggestions and exports a publishable version with full accountability.

What does AI do, and what does your team do?

AI assistance

  • •Flags potential personal data in documents
  • •Recognizes patterns such as ID numbers, email, and phone
  • •Provides fast first-pass analysis of large file sets
  • •Delivers consistent suggestions across multiple documents

Human review

  • •Assesses legal context per passage
  • •Accepts or rejects AI suggestions
  • •Adds manual redactions where needed
  • •Retains final responsibility for publication

Faster first analysis

Initial detection of personal data in minutes instead of hours of manual review.

Context-aware detection

The system recognizes names, IDs, addresses, and contact details in running text and tables.

Human final control

Record disclosure decisions in your own case file.

Process in 4 steps

1

Upload document

Upload PDF documents; convert Word or Excel files to PDF first. Check and correct AI suggestions before export.

2

AI detection

The system flags personal data and sensitive passages.

3

Review and decision

Reviewer validates suggestions and adjusts redactions.

4

Human review

Download a version ready for disclosure or sharing.

Example: detection and redaction

Detected passage

Applicant Maria de Vries (ID 123456782) submitted a request on 14-03-2025 via m.devries@email.nl.

After review and redaction

Applicant [REDACTED] (ID [REDACTED]) submitted a request on 14-03-2025 via [REDACTED].

Frequently asked questions about AI anonymization

Is AI anonymization fully automatic?

No. Anonify is AI-assisted: detection is automated, but the final decision stays with your reviewer.

Are redaction decisions recorded?

Redaction and export decisions are recorded in an audit log: who, when, which decision and which Woo ground, without the document text itself. Admins see the overview per organisation and can export it as CSV. Logging starts from when this feature went live.

Are my documents used for model training?

No. Customer documents are not used to train AI models.

When is AI anonymization suitable for FOI?

For structured disclosure processing where speed, consistency, and accountability matter together.

See AI anonymization on your own document

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