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PII categories

Choose and tune PII entity categories per job.

PII Categories

Control which PII categories are redacted per job with the pii_categories field on POST /v1/jobs.

Request format

pii_categories is sent as a JSON array string in multipart form data.

Example:

["Person","Email","PhoneNumber","Address"]

Supported categories

  • Person
  • Email
  • PhoneNumber
  • Address
  • Organization
  • Date
  • IBAN
  • CreditCard

Behavior when omitted

If you omit pii_categories, account-level defaults from dashboard preferences are applied.

Selection strategy

  • Start broad in regulated environments.
  • Narrow categories only when false positives impact workflows.
  • Validate output quality on representative real documents before production rollout.

Example request

curl -sS -X POST "https://api.redactpdf.ai/v1/jobs" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F 'files=@/absolute/path/report.pdf;type=application/pdf' \
  -F 'pii_categories=["Person","Email","Organization","Date"]'
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