Redact-a-bit 0.2.0

Redact-a-bit strips identifying PII from PDFs and text files and swaps it for realistic fake data, partial masks, or [REDACTED] tags — so a document stays usable (e.g. to paste into AI) without exposing who it's about. Everything runs locally on your machine.

Install (Windows)

• MSI: Redact-a-bit_0.2.0_x64_en-US.msi — or installer: Redact-a-bit_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe.
• This build is unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC" → click More info → Run anyway. It's a free, open-source tool and the source is right here to verify.

Privacy

• Nothing about your document leaves your machine. Optional local detection models (GLiNER) download once from Hugging Face on first use (inbound only); after that it runs with Wi-Fi off.

In this build

• Three levels × three modes (Fake / Mask / Label), regex floor + optional GLiNER name/address detection, true PDF-as-PDF redaction.
• Inputs: PDF and plain text (.txt, .md).
• Theme toggle (System/Light/Dark), keyboard-navigable UI, graceful handling of unsupported files, filenames encode level + mode.

AGPL-3.0-or-later. macOS/Linux builds to come.