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Redacting embedded images

Documents carry sensitive pictures as well as sensitive words: an ID photo on a CV, a scanned signature on a claim, a photo of a car’s number plate in an accident report. When the model analyzes a document with vision, it surfaces those images so you can deal with them.

If a document has flagged images, an Images section appears near the bottom of the entries panel, with a thumbnail and a blur switch for each. The header shows how many were found.

Flip a switch on, and that image is blurred in the regenerated output — heavily enough that a face, a plate, or a signature is no longer legible. Flip it off to leave the image as-is.

Because there’s no in-document preview for a blur (unlike text, which you can instant-redact), toggling an image switch nudges the anonymized view to regenerate so you can actually see the result.

Two tools touch images, for two situations:

SituationUse
Piixie recognized the image (it’s a thumbnail in the Images section)The blur switch here
A sensitive area the image pass didn’t flag — part of a page, a stamp, a region of a scanDraw a redaction box

Blur softens the whole recognized image; a drawn box paints a hard patch over an exact rectangle. For something that must be provably gone — a signature on a legal PDF — a Black box is the firmer choice. For a CV photo, blur is usually enough.

  • PDF — embedded images are analyzed and can be blurred or covered with a drawn box. This is the richest case.
  • DOCX — Word images are not analyzed in the current build. If a Word document contains a sensitive picture, export it to PDF and process that, where both the blur switch and the drawing tool apply. (See file formats.)

A redaction-style CV PDF has the candidate’s headshot top-right and their name, email, and phone in the header. The model synthesizes (or redacts) the text and lists the headshot in the Images section. Flip its blur switch on, Save to output, and the delivered CV has anonymized contact details and an unrecognizable photo. The full walkthrough is in Anonymize a CV with a photo.