Omit Redact 1.0.0 beta 5
Pre-release
Fifth beta of Omit Redact. Fully offline PII detection and redaction for Windows.
What changed since beta.4
JSON is now a supported redaction format, alongside text, CSV, Excel, PDF and images. It works differently from the others underneath: instead of parsing and rewriting the file, which would normalize spacing and number formatting even where nothing changed, Omit finds the exact position of every string value in the original file and only touches the characters that actually matched. A JSON file with no PII in it comes back byte-for-byte identical to what went in. Object keys are treated as context only, the same way a CSV column header is: a key is never scanned for PII and never redacted. If a key itself carries PII, an automated pass will not catch it today; that is a known, documented limitation, not a hidden one.
BIC/SWIFT bank codes went from clearly losing to clearly winning. We benchmark ourselves against Google Cloud DLP on real prose, and BIC/SWIFT was our worst gap: a strict-match score of 0.25 against Google's 0.42. No real checksum exists for a SWIFT code, so we had deliberately kept its confidence low rather than flag an ordinary capitalized word as a bank code. That was the safe default and the wrong one to keep once it was costing a benchmark outright, so it now fires on structural validity alone. Measured score after the change: 0.9955.
Four languages had no bank-code or SIM-identifier detection at all. Chasing the BIC/SWIFT fix turned up a separate, older bug: Spanish, Italian, Polish and Finnish had zero detection for BIC/SWIFT, ICCID and IMSI, in the shipped app, not only in a benchmark. Fixed for all four.
Pick an installer
| Download | On disk | What you get | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offline (recommended) | 931 MB | ~1.5 GB | Everything. All seven languages and the Accuracy model are bundled. It never touches the network, for anything, ever. |
| Light | 167 MB | ~517 MB | Fast tier with English. The other six languages download on request. No Accuracy tier, now or later. |
If you want the Accuracy tier, take the offline installer. A light install cannot
fetch it afterwards.
Windows will warn you
Neither installer is code signed yet, so SmartScreen will show "Windows protected
your PC". Click More info, then Run anyway. That warning means the file has
no certificate, not that anything is wrong with it.