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Finding what's sensitive

How Lex Cloak spots names, numbers, codes and signatures, and how to point it at the people you already know about.

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

    How detection works

    Lex Cloak runs detection on your computer, surfaces matches as red and amber boxes, and gives you category and confidence controls for review.

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

    Identity profiles

    Name the person you already know about, and Lex Cloak looks for the forms their details realistically appear in. Detection keeps looking for everyone else.

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  • The sidebar with the Always Redact and Never Redact lists open, showing which terms are always hidden and which are always kept.

    Always Redact and Never Redact lists

    How the device-local Always Redact and Never Redact lists work, the Always-beats-Never precedence rule, and where the lists live.

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  • A lab requisition after the Codes pass, with the stacked specimen barcode outlined for redaction and the footer QR code flagged for review.

    Barcodes and QR codes

    Lex Cloak reads barcodes and QR codes on your computer and flags them for review. Codes it cannot read are sorted by kind, so license barcodes redact.

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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

    How Lex Cloak auto-detects signatures after each document scan, how to re-run the scan, and what the pre-download checklist warns about.

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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 across pages and redacts it as a band. Page numbers are kept. How to turn it off.

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