--- title: "PII & PHI Redaction Software, Self-Hosted & Open Source" description: "Open source PII and PHI redaction for your cloud, your data center, or your PC. In production since 2019 and available on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud." url: "https://philterd.ai/" --- Open source PII redaction, in production since 2019 # Redact sensitive data without sending it anywhere. Philterd's [open source](https://philterd.ai/open-source-software/) software finds personal and health information in documents and data and redacts it. It runs in your cloud, your data center, or on your PC, so Philterd never sees your data and no new vendor holds it. [Deploy in your cloud](https://philterd.ai/philter/deploy/) [Redact files on your PC](https://philterd.ai/philter-desktop/) Available on - [AWS Marketplace](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07YVB8FFT?ref=_ptnr_mf_launch) - [Azure Marketplace](https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/philterdllc1687189098111.philter?tab=Overview) - [Google Cloud Marketplace](https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/philterd-public/philter) Choose how you redact ## In your cloud, on your PC, or in your app Pick by who does the redacting. Your IT team can run it for the whole organization, or one person can use it on a PC. For IT and data teams ### [Philter](https://philterd.ai/philter/) A redaction API you deploy in your own cloud or data center. Your services send it text and get redacted text back, and Philterd never receives your data. ``` $ curl -sk https://localhost:8080/api/filter \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $PHILTER_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \ --data-binary "His SSN was 123-45-6789." His SSN was {{{REDACTED-ssn}}}. ``` **$0.49** / hour for 4 vCPU on your cloud marketplace Free to self-host. Open source under Apache 2.0. [Deploy](https://philterd.ai/philter/deploy/) [Learn more](https://philterd.ai/philter/) For small offices ### [Philter Desktop](https://philterd.ai/philter-desktop/) Redact PDF, Word, Excel, text, and email files on a Windows PC, including scanned PDFs. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no server to manage. ![Philter Desktop main window showing a queue of documents being redacted](https://philterd.ai/images/philter-desktop/main-form.png) ~$199~ **$79.60** / user, first year Renews at $199 per year. [Download](https://philterd.ai/philter-desktop/download/) [Buy Now](https://philterd.ai/philter-desktop/buy/) For developers ### [Phileas](https://philterd.ai/phileas/) The open source library underneath Philter. Free and open source under Apache 2.0. [Learn more](https://philterd.ai/phileas/) Consulting ## Bring in the team that built it Each engagement starts with a fixed price and a defined scope, and the work happens inside your own environment. Pick the one closest to your situation, or book a call and we will help you scope it. [See how we work](https://philterd.ai/consulting/) [Book a 30-min call](https://philterd.ai/#) For healthcare apps ### [PHI Assessment](https://philterd.ai/consulting/healthcare-app-phi-assessment/) For an app facing a pilot, a diligence process, or a security review. You get a read-only review with a location for every finding, a verdict you can show a reviewer, and a plan for moving to HIPAA hosting. Fixed price. Nothing in your stack changes. May be free or reduced cost for nonprofits and universities. [See the engagement →](https://philterd.ai/consulting/healthcare-app-phi-assessment/) For data in motion ### [PII Data Pipelines](https://philterd.ai/consulting/pii-data-pipelines/) For data moving between systems that has to lose its PII on the way. We design the redaction, build it inside your cloud, measure it on your own data, and hand you a system you own. Starts with a fixed-price Discovery. The plan is yours whether or not we build it. [See the engagement →](https://philterd.ai/consulting/pii-data-pipelines/) For model training ### [AI Training Data](https://philterd.ai/consulting/ai-training-data-de-identification/) For a corpus you want to train or fine-tune on that contains personal information. You get a de-identified corpus and a precision and recall report per entity type, measured against a gold standard built from your records. Starts with a fixed-price Discovery. [See the engagement →](https://philterd.ai/consulting/ai-training-data-de-identification/) ## From the blog One post for each path above. Deploying Philter in your cloud, redacting PDFs on your PC, and finding where a healthcare app leaks PHI. [View all posts →](https://philterd.ai/blog/) Philter, AWS ### [How to Deploy Philter in 5 Minutes on the AWS Marketplace](https://philterd.ai/blog/deploy-philter-in-5-minutes-aws-marketplace/) Subscribe, launch into your own VPC, and redact PII in minutes. A step-by-step guide to deploying the self-hosted Philter API from the AWS Marketplace. [Read post →](https://philterd.ai/blog/deploy-philter-in-5-minutes-aws-marketplace/) Philter Desktop, Redaction ### [Redact PDFs Offline on Windows so No Data Leaves Your PC](https://philterd.ai/blog/redact-pdfs-offline-on-windows/) Philter Desktop redacts PDFs entirely on your Windows PC, including scanned pages read with on-device OCR. No uploads, no server, and it works offline. [Read post →](https://philterd.ai/blog/redact-pdfs-offline-on-windows/) Redaction, Architecture ### [Five Ways a Healthcare App Leaks PHI Without Anyone Noticing](https://philterd.ai/blog/five-ways-a-healthcare-app-leaks-phi/) The demo looks clean. Here are five places PHI quietly ends up in a fast-built healthcare app, why each one happens, and what to do about it. [Read post →](https://philterd.ai/blog/five-ways-a-healthcare-app-leaks-phi/)