Files

You can use the SDK to generated redacted and synthesized files. To do this, you can either:

• Redact individual files directly

• Add files to a dataset and then redact them

Before you use the SDK, follow the steps in Getting started to create and set up your API key.

Redact a file

To redact an individual file:

from tonic_textual.redact_api import TextualNer

#Pass in API Key here, or set TONIC_TEXTUAL_API_KEY in your ENV
redact = TextualNer()

with open('<Path to file to redact>', 'rb') as f:
    j = redact.start_file_redaction(f.read(),'<File Name>')

# Specify generator_config to determine which entity types are 'Redacted', 'Synthesis', and 'Off'.
# 'Redacted' is the default. To override the default, use the generator_default param.
new_bytes = redact.download_redacted_file(j)

with open('<Redacted file name>','wb') as redacted_file:
    redacted_file.write(new_bytes)

Configure how to handle specific entity types

By default, in the downloaded file, all of the entities are redacted.

To synthesize values for or ignore specific types of entities in the file, use the generator_config param.

In this example, we disable the modification of numeric values and synthesize email addresses:

redact.download_redacted_file(j, generator_config={'NUMERIC_VALUE':'Off','EMAIL_ADDRESS':'Synthesis'})