The document viewer

The left side of the editor is the document itself, rendered so you can read it the way a recipient would. Every format renders on your machine — opening a document to view it sends nothing anywhere.

PDFs

PDFs render page by page with a real, selectable text layer on top. That text layer is what lets you:

Select text to add a missed entry.
Draw a box over a region to redact it, with the trapped text shown for context.
See occurrence counts — how many times each detected value appears across the pages.

Scanned PDFs with no text layer still render as images; the model read them through vision during the run, so the entry list is populated even when there’s no text to select.

The status bar shows the page in view, such as 3 / 22, so you always know where you are in a long document.

Word documents (.docx)

Word files render as pages, the way Word shows them: page size and margins, fonts and sizes, bold, italic and underline, alignment and indents, numbered and bulleted lists, tables, pictures, and each page’s header and footer with its page number. A table that runs onto the next page repeats its header row there, and a letterhead set for the first page only stays on the first page. Both views use these pages: the original you’re reviewing and the anonymized file the editor regenerates.

Piixie lays the pages out on your machine, so a line or a page can break a little differently from Word, mostly when the document uses a font your computer doesn’t have (Piixie then uses the closest one it has). A status-bar note reminds you of this whenever a Word file is open. A few things don’t show as in Word:

Text set in newspaper-style columns stays on one long page.
Tracked changes show as accepted, without revision marks, and comments are hidden.
Floating text boxes and shapes can be missing or out of place.

The preview never touches the file. The saved .docx keeps its own layout, fonts, and formatting.

In Word and text files the drawing tool becomes a highlighter: select text and redact it, instead of dragging coordinate boxes.

Plain text and Markdown

Shown as-is. Markdown is rendered as source so you can see exactly what will be written back — links and headings are preserved untouched in the output.

The values the entries change

Every value an entry changes has a soft purple tint, in both views and with any method. On the original, it’s over the real value; on the anonymized copy, over what took its place: the fake name, the label, or the black bar. Entries you’ve switched off have no tint, since the output keeps them as they are.

As you scroll, the entries panel follows along: the entries on the page in view get the same tint there.

The tints are clickable (the pointer turns into a hand over one):

Click a tinted value to find its entry in the panel. The list scrolls to it and flashes it, unfolding its category or clearing a search that hid it.
⇧-click keeps the value as it is: its entry is switched off, so the output leaves it alone.
⌘⇧-click keeps every entry of its kind, for example all the dates found as DOB.

Both are a single step for undo (⌘Z).

Resting the pointer on a tint shows a card with the entry’s type, the value and what it becomes, how many times it appears, and what each click does, with how many entries it switches: ⌘⇧-click on a NAME reads, for example, “keep every NAME (12 entries)”.

It works the other way too: click an entry in the panel and its values light up in the document, ringed in purple. The view scrolls to the first one when it’s out of sight, and pulses it. The light stays until you click another entry or the document.

Zoom and pages

The zoom controls sit at the bottom left, in the status bar. They work as in Preview on the Mac:

− and + step through 25% to 400%. 100% is the page’s real size.
The zoom menu adds Fit page (the whole page in view) and Fit width. A fit follows the window as you resize it.
The fit page button, or ⌘9, fits the page in view and brings it to the top.
⌥↓ and ⌥↑ go to the next and previous page.
Pinching on the trackpad zooms in and out around the spot between your fingers.

Piixie remembers the zoom you picked for the next document. Zooming keeps the text sharp: the pages in view are drawn again at the new size.

Switching what the viewer shows

The viewer can show either the anonymized result or the original input, and can overlay an instant-redact preview. Those switches live in the status bar — see reading what changed.

File details

Click the file badge in the top-left for the origin file and output file paths, plus size and page or image counts. Handy when you have several editors open and need to confirm which document is which.

Embedded images

If the document carries images the model flagged — a signed scan, an ID photo, a logo — they appear as thumbnails in the entries panel with a blur switch each. See redacting images.