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Open Source Redaction Software

Our software is open source. That means you can use it without charge.

We offer consulting and professional services for our open source software to assist with your deployments and configuration, provide support, and make any necessary code changes. Contact us to learn more.

Phileas

Phileas is the core of our software. It is a powerful software library that is capable of finding PII and redacting it. But it doesn't stop there. Phileas can also encrypt, mask, anonymize, and replace sensitive information, as well as apply redaction logic to give the user full control of the redaction process. Phileas is used by lots of other projects to power their data redaction.

Philter

Philter is a turnkey, self-hosted PII redaction solution. Philter builds on Phileas to provide an API layer that lets Philter's redaction capabilities be integrated into virtually any sysatem. In addition to being open source, Philter is available in the AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure marketplaces. Learn more about Philter or launch it in your private cloud today.

Phileas Benchmark

We recognize the importance of performance when redacting PII. The Phileas Benchmark open source project provides a way to evaluate how fast redaction can be done across several pieces of text. We use this project to ensure any changes introduced into Phileas do not negatively affect its performance.

Philter SDKs

Philter is an open source application for redacting PII via an API. To make integrating Philter in your applications easy, we have several open source Philter client SDK projects.

Open Source Software FAQ

Is Philterd's software open source?

The core component of our software that identifies and redacts sensitive information is open source. The project is called Phileas and it is available on GitHub. Philter is also open source and is built on Phileas.

Why shouldn't I just use the open source code?

You absolutely can per the open source license. We do ask, but it is not required, that if you use the open source code, please contribute back in some way. It doesn't have to be a major feature with lots of code.

All contributions, even the smallest documentation fixes or bug reports, are helpful to everyone! A rising tide lifts all boats - other users will benefit from your contributions and you will benefit from others' contributions!

Is Philterd Data Services open source?

Philterd Data Services is built on top of the open source Phileas and Philter projects. If you want to see the code that Philterd Data Services uses to redact text, look in those projects.

Code written for Philterd Data Services often goes into Phileas and Philter. This code contributed to Phileas is a great example. This code was written to allow custom anonymization lists in Philterd Data Services, but because Philterd Data Services builds on top of Phileas, that's where the code actually goes.

So the benefits go both ways. When code is contributed to Phileas and Philter, it becomes available to Philterd Data Services. And when we want to add new features to Philterd Data Services, most often that code goes into Phileas and Philter.

I found a bug in the open source code or documentation. What do I do?

Great! The first thing to do is identify which GitHub project the problem belongs to. Once you have done that, use the project's Issues tab in GitHub to create an issue. If you need help, please reach out. We sincerely appreciate you taking the time to report issues!