Features

Lex Cloak finds sensitive information in your PDFs and gives you the controls to redact it, all on your computer. Each feature below links to its full guide, because for sensitive work the documentation is part of the product.

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Barcodes and QR codesNew

Click the barcode button in the toolbar to scan for barcodes and QR codes, or choose Check now when Lex Cloak offers it after a scan.

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Get started

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Get started

Open a PDF by dragging it anywhere onto the Lex Cloak window, or click browse files to choose one.

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Review and redact

A court filing open in Lex Cloak with draw mode on, ready to drag a redaction box over anything on the page.

Add your own redactions

Highlight text with your mouse, then choose from the popup whether to redact it on this page, across the whole document, or always across every document.

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A case file page whose repeating letterhead is outlined in red, so the same header can be cleared from every page at once.

Headers, footers and page numbers

The Repeating header and footer category finds content that repeats in the top or bottom margin of many pages, such as a letterhead or a running footer, and redacts it as a band.

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A crooked, grainy photocopy of an intake form, with the scan still finding and outlining the personal details on it.

How detection works

The PHI Categories chips let you turn detection types on or off, such as Name, Date of birth, or Social Security number.

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A medical referral letter where one named person's details are outlined throughout the page and tracked together.

Identity profiles

An identity profile is the person you already know has to come out of the document.

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A scanned old letter with a handwritten ink signature near the bottom, and the typed names beside it outlined in red.

Signatures and handwriting

Lex Cloak checks for handwritten signatures automatically after each document scan, marking what it finds for redaction.

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A 210-page document shown as a grid of page thumbnails before any scanning starts, so unneeded pages can be dropped first.

Triage for large documents

When a document runs past about 50 pages, Lex Cloak opens Triage, which sorts pages into buckets so you can decide what to keep and what to drop before you redact.

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The page thumbnail strip open beside a document, showing every page so single pages can be rotated or dropped.

Red boxes and the review loop

A red box marks something Lex Cloak proposes to redact.

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Always Redact and Never Redact lists

Add a term to Always Redact and Lex Cloak flags and redacts it in every document.

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Export and save

A court filing with the Export Text menu open, offering the document's wording with the personal details taken out.

Export text for AI tools

Export Text turns the open document into anonymized text you can paste into an AI tool, with every detected sensitive part replaced by a stable label.

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