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Understanding the browser-local redaction workflow

Updated 28 Jan 20264 min readAuthor: Redactorr Support Team · [email protected]Last reviewed: May 2026

Outcome

Understand the browser-local redaction flow and choose the correct task playbook without over-sharing private content.

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Before you start

Know whether you are learning the product or trying to finish a specific redaction task.
Keep raw private content in the product workflow, not in support messages.
Use current product screens as the source of truth when a reference article feels stale.

Visual frame

Review asset

How Redactorr works storyboard

Synthetic architecture frame only. It explains the browser-local redaction boundary without making storage, training, or compliance claims.

InputBrowser session
DetectionLocal review
HandoffOptional output

Synthetic frame

Browser workspace

Detection starts from the local session.

SourceText or supported file
Original valuesIn review session
Network handoffNot required for detection
The key mental model is local review first, optional handoff later.

Browser-local flow map

A reference frame for the product sequence, with task routes separated from architecture notes.

BoundaryWhat the article can and cannot safely claim.
Next routeThe playbook or reference page that should handle the actual task.
Safe contextWhat support can receive without raw originals by default.

Guided steps

Follow the task, then check the result.

Read the boundary before acting

Start with what the article says is available, measured, preview-only, or not a product claim. Do not treat reference material as permission to send raw private content to support or external tools.

Article boundary note followed by the next task route.
Success check: You know whether this article is a task guide, a reference page, or a product-boundary note.

Move from product overview to the right task

Use this article to understand the sequence: input, detection, review, output, and optional sharing. If you need to act, open the closest playbook instead of trying to infer steps from the overview.

Browser-local flow map
Success check: You can name the stage you are in and have opened the matching task guide.

Prepare safe support context if something disagrees

If the article and product screen do not match, describe the route, step, browser, and symptom. Do not paste raw original document text, secrets, restoration material, or private files by default.

Safe support bundle with route, symptom, and consent-only fields separated.
Success check: Any support description avoids raw private content unless you explicitly consent.

Branch questions

Completion check

You know whether this page is instructional, reference-only, or a product-boundary note.
You opened a task playbook when step-by-step guidance was needed.
Any support escalation avoids raw document text, secrets, files, and restoration material by default.

Support boundary

Support can use by default

  • Article slug and product route.
  • Stage name such as input, detection, review, output, or sharing.
  • Browser and viewport after consent.
  • Intent ID
  • Article slug
  • App route
  • Browser and viewport

Requires your consent

  • User-written description
  • Email address
  • Explicit attachment
  • Redacted sample
  • Support bundle previewed to the user

Not collected by default

  • Raw original document text
  • Full local file paths
  • Pasted private content
  • Unmasked screenshots
  • Replay capture

Safe support summary

Copy a scrubbed handoff.

Redactorr KB support summary

Article: /knowledge-base/how-it-works
Selected issue: A product screen no longer matches the article sequence.
Playbook progress: 0/3 steps marked complete

Safe context to include:
- Article slug and product route.
- Stage name such as input, detection, review, output, or sharing.
- Browser and viewport after consent.
- Intent ID
- Article slug
- App route
- Browser and viewport

Requires explicit consent:
- User-written description
- Email address
- Explicit attachment
- Redacted sample
- Support bundle previewed to the user

Do not include by default:
- Raw original document text
- Full local file paths
- Pasted private content
- Unmasked screenshots
- Replay capture

User note:
- Describe the step and symptom without pasting raw document text, secrets, files, or restoration material.

Article details

Your Browser as a Privacy Shield

Think of Redactorr as a private screening room for your documents. You bring a document in, it finds and replaces sensitive items with safe placeholders during browser-local detection and redaction.

Browser-Local Detection

Here is what makes Redactorr different: detection and redaction run in your browser.

When you paste text or open a file, detection, verification, and redaction run locally in your browser.

Original sensitive values stay local during detection and redaction.

How Detection Works

Pattern Screening**

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Redactorr scans your text for known sensitive formats: emails, phone numbers, card-like values, credentials, government identifiers, and more. The scan happens locally in the browser.

Validation**

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Finding a pattern is not enough. Matches are validated where possible. Card-like values are checked against standard format rules, emails are checked for valid structure, and identifiers are reviewed against the rules available for that type.

Context Analysis**

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Redactorr looks at surrounding text. A number string in a test example can mean something different from the same string in a payroll report. Context helps decide what should be marked for review.

Redaction**

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Once confirmed, sensitive data is replaced with a labelled placeholder like [EMAIL_1] or [TFN_1]. The same value always gets the same placeholder — so relationships in the document are preserved.

What Gets Detected

Personal identifiers

  • Email addresses
  • Australian and international phone numbers
  • Names and addresses

Australian government identifiers

  • Tax File Numbers (TFN)
  • Medicare numbers
  • ABNs, ACNs, BSBs
  • State-specific licence numbers

Financial data

  • Credit card numbers
  • Bank account numbers

Credentials

  • API keys (AWS, Stripe, GitHub, and many others)
  • Passwords in configuration files
  • Database connection strings

Industry-specific

  • Medical record numbers, patient identifiers
  • Legal matter references, AHPRA numbers
  • Construction licence numbers, site details

Custom patterns

  • Your organisation's internal ID formats
  • Internal codes and proprietary identifiers

Why This Matters

Traditional cloud-based redaction tools upload your file to a server, process it remotely, then send you back a result. Your sensitive data travels over the internet and sits on someone else's infrastructure.

Redactorr's approach: open the file in your browser, run detection and redaction locally, then choose what reviewed output moves to later workflows.

Privacy by Architecture

Redactorr's privacy is not a setting you toggle on — it is built into the architecture. Detection and redaction run inside a sandboxed environment in your browser. Optional Vault, sharing, and AI workflows use processed or reviewed redacted context when you choose.

After the app loads, browser-local detection and redaction can continue without connectivity.

Still stuck?

Copy a safe article handoff.

Start support with the article, the issue, and safe context. Raw document text, files, restoration material, and unredacted screenshots stay out unless you explicitly choose otherwise.

Support can start here
  • Article slug
  • Selected issue
  • Screen name
  • Action name
Redactorr support case

Source: Article playbook: how-it-works
Route: /knowledge-base/how-it-works
Selected issue: A product screen no longer matches the article sequence.

Safe context:
- Article slug and product route.
- Stage name such as input, detection, review, output, or sharing.
- Browser and viewport after consent.
- Article slug
- Selected issue
- Screen name or article section
- Action name
- Browser and viewport

Only include with explicit consent:
- User-written description
- Email address
- Explicit attachment
- Redacted sample
- Support bundle previewed to the user

Do not include by default:
- Raw original document text
- Full local file paths
- Pasted private content
- Unmasked screenshots
- Replay capture
- Hidden diagnostic uploads

User note:
- Describe what you tried and what happened. Do not paste raw document text, secrets, files, restoration material, or unredacted screenshots.

Support case builder

One case format, wherever you start.

This is the same support case shape used by diagnostics and article handoffs.

Safe to include
  • Article slug and product route.
  • Stage name such as input, detection, review, output, or sharing.
  • Browser and viewport after consent.
  • Article slug
  • Selected issue
  • Screen name or article section
Consent boundary

Private material belongs behind an explicit consent step, not in the initial case.

6 default exclusions

Before you copy0/4 ready
Open safe support guide