FAQ
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No. Obscelis needs no account, and your documents never leave your computer: import, detection, OCR, review and export all run on it. Its detection rules and OCR data are installed with the application. The optional detection model is downloaded only when you ask for it in Settings, and nothing about your documents is ever sent.
In the exported copy, yes. PDF pages are flattened after your decisions, so masked text cannot be selected, copied or extracted, and metadata is cleaned. The copy is then reread independently; if any masked value can still be found, the export is refused. Your original stays as it was.
Treat it as a well-informed proposal. Identifiers with a check key (IBAN, NIR, SIREN, SIRET, payment cards) are validated, and each detection shows its confidence and origin. You accept or reject each one, and you can draw a zone over anything it missed.
Yes. Pages without usable text are read with Tesseract OCR in French and English, on your device. Text found by OCR is marked as such, with its own confidence, and never silently replaces an existing text layer.
PDF documents, with text or scanned pages; Word, Excel and PowerPoint files (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx); images (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, WebP); e-mails (.eml) with their attachments; and text files (TXT, Markdown, CSV, TSV, JSON, XML, HTML, vCard). Each copy keeps the format of its source. Older .doc and .xls files, OpenDocument files and HEIC photos are not read yet: save them as .docx, .xlsx or JPEG first.
Names, postal addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, IBAN and BIC, French identifiers (NIR, SIREN, SIRET), payment cards, passport and identity card numbers, IP addresses, licence plates, and identifiers you define yourself, such as client numbers.
Not on its own, and no software can. Obscelis helps you remove personal data before sharing a document, for instance when answering an access request or producing exhibits. Whether a document is anonymous, and whether a disclosure is lawful, remains your organisation's assessment.
Pseudonymised data can still be linked back to a person with extra information; anonymised data cannot. Masking names and identifiers is a step towards anonymisation, but what remains in a document (a job title, a date, a rare event) can still identify someone. Obscelis lets you mask those too, by hand.
Native applications for macOS, Windows and Linux, in French and English. Detection is tuned for documents written in French and English.
Download it for macOS, Windows or Linux from the download page and try it for 30 days, with no account and no card. The plans and their prices are on the pricing page.
Download it for macOS, Windows or Linux: the trial needs no account and no card. A question, or a demonstration for your team? Write to us.
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