Blotmarked finds names, addresses, ID numbers and bank details in a payslip, bank statement or letter, and blacks them out for good. It will not catch everything - nothing does - so it shows you what it found and leaves the last word to you. All of it on your own device: the file you choose opens in your browser and never reaches a server of ours.
A landlord, a bank opening an account, an insurer, a new employer, an immigration or benefits office - each one asks for payslips, bank statements, an ID copy. Each time, you sit down and black out account numbers, employer details, signatures, everything on the page nobody asked to see, across dozens of pages, over and over.
Open the payslip or bank statement, let it scan for personal data, confirm what it found, tap anything it missed. Every redaction is undoable until you save, and permanent afterwards - and you check every page before it is final.
Choosing a document opens it in your browser. Finding the personal data, showing it to you and blacking it out all run on the device you opened it on, phone or laptop alike.
We cannot lose a document we never received, and there is nothing of yours for anybody to ask us for. No copy sits on a server of ours, because none was ever sent to one.
Reading the words out of a photograph happens on your device too. No part of your payslip passes through another company on its way to being redacted.
Each of these takes about a minute, and none of them needs us.
Turn the wifi off - flight mode on a phone - then redact a document. It still works. Something that had to send your file away could not do that.
Open your browser network panel before you start, and keep it open. Your document is not in any of it.
Open the finished file and search it for something you blacked out. It is not there. The text was removed, not covered over.
These are the trade-offs of the design, not problems waiting to be fixed. We would rather you knew them now than found them later.