Omit Redact 1.0.0 beta 6

Sixth beta of Omit Redact. Fully offline PII detection and redaction for Windows.

A correction, first

The beta.5 notes said BIC/SWIFT bank code detection had been fixed, and the numbers we published were real: they were measured against the actual fix. What they did not mention is that the fix had not been merged into the branch beta.5 was built from. The installer we shipped as beta.5 did not contain it. That gap is closed now: the fix is merged into main, this build is cut from that, and we checked the running code directly before publishing, not just the commit history.

What changed since beta.4

BIC/SWIFT bank codes went from clearly losing to clearly winning, against Google Cloud DLP on real prose. 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.

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.

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.

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.