data-privacy-stack/presidio
An open-source framework for detecting, redacting, masking, and anonymizing sensitive data (PII) across text, images, and structured data. Supports NLP, pattern matching, and customizable pipelines.
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Where it stands
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2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 10 days ago, with 213 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides an open-source framework for detecting, redacting, masking, and anonymizing sensitive data across text, images, and structured data.
- Enables customizable and extensible PII detection and anonymization pipelines using NLP, pattern matching, and external models for flexible privacy protection.
- Use for automating PII detection and anonymization in unstructured text data to comply with data privacy regulations.
- Use for redacting sensitive information from images, including standard and medical DICOM images, to protect visual data privacy.
- Use for integrating privacy-preserving data masking in big data workflows via Python or PySpark in containerized or cloud environments.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
Context aware, pluggable and customizable PII de-identification service for text and images.
Presidio (Origin from Latin praesidium ‘protection, garrison’) helps to ensure sensitive data is properly managed and governed. It provides fast identification and anonymization modules for private entities in text such as credit card numbers, names, locations, social security numbers, bitcoin wallets, US phone numbers, financial data and more.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
1.4K+178
Open issues
256+152
Compared with peers in NLP
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch | 78.3K | +1.6K | 75 | 1 day ago |
| ruvnet/ruflo | 81.4K | +635 | 75 | today |
| techjarves/Portable-Local-Studio | 2.0K | +148 | 75 | — |
| GeeeekExplorer/nano-vllm | 16.3K | — | 12 | — |
| data-privacy-stack/presidio | 11.8K | — | 64 | 10 days ago |
| MakazhanAlpamys/Soup | 10.1K | — | 65 | 6 days ago |
| Category median | 16.3K | +635 | 75 | — |
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