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Changelog

Updates about Piixie features, supported file types, privacy improvements, website changes, bug fixes, and release notes.

Expanded the docs with full sections for the editor (including drawing redactions and the highlighter), detection results, dictionaries, templates, deanonymization, reasoning models, batch output, and a set of end-to-end recipes.

Anonymization now has a return trip. Piixie can restore the original values in a previously anonymized document — using the exact run that produced it, or a dictionary of known swaps when the file was edited elsewhere. Dropped files are checked against history automatically, with a prompt to reverse instead of anonymize. Redaction runs stay one-way by design.

Reusable original → replacement mappings that keep the same fake identities across documents and runs. A dedicated manager window to create, search, and curate them; profiles can reuse existing entries and grow a dictionary from each run.

Models can now reason before answering for better detection on tricky documents — local Gemma via llama.cpp, Anthropic extended thinking, and OpenAI reasoning effort. Set the effort per model (Off / Low / Med / High) and watch the thinking stream live in the processing dialog.

Synthetic mode can generate several variants of one document in a single run, with configurable output file naming (number, hash, or date).

Added a side-by-side editor that opens any completed document in its own window. Review the detected replacements as toggleable entries, add new ones by selecting text, and flip the Show redactions switch to eyeball the original against the redacted result instantly. Refresh regenerates the document into a versioned stash; Save to output promotes a version. Includes instant undo/redo (⌘Z / ⌘⇧Z).

Editor customizations can be saved as reusable templates — generalized rules (keep this value, synthesize every name, redact this pattern) that apply to a different-but-similar document, such as a recurring invoice layout.

More synthetic languages and redaction characters

Section titled “More synthetic languages and redaction characters”

Synthetic mode adds Portuguese, French, Italian, and German, plus Català, Euskera, and Galego regional name packs. Redaction now offers extra block and shade characters (█ ▓ ▒ ░ ▬), shared between the editor and profile settings.

Added the first Piixie marketing site, download page, documentation hub, automation guide, architecture diagrams, product screenshots, and this changelog for future release notes.

Published Piixie’s local-first approach for people and organizations anonymizing documents before sending content to LLMs.

Published Free, Pro, Scale-up, and Enterprise tiers with daily local anonymization limits and central server options.