Getting started with Redact Assisted

Log in

Go to ante.dk and choose “AnteRedact” in the “Log in” menu, or go directly to redact.ante.dk.

Log in with your e-mail and password. If your account has two-factor authentication enabled, you will also be asked for a one-time code from your authenticator app.

Upload documents

After logging in you land on All documents. Click Upload documents at the top right, or drop one or more documents straight onto the list.

A progress bar shows how the upload is going. If you work in projects, upload from the project’s own page instead. The files are then placed in that project.

Follow the status in the list

Every document appears in the list with a status. The list updates by itself while documents are processed, can be filtered by date, and you can choose how many rows are shown per page.

Click the status to open the document’s event log if you want to see what has happened to it.

A long document can be canceled while it is processing, and a failed one can be retried. See the “Long documents” guide.

• Queued: The document is waiting in the queue.
• Processing: The AI reads the document and finds personal data (scanned pages are OCR’d automatically).
• In review: The suggestions are ready for your review.
• Redacted: The document has been approved and the redacted file can be downloaded.
• Failed / Expired: Something went wrong, or the document was cleaned up after the retention period.

Open a document for review

When the status is In review, open the document by clicking the file name or the pencil at the far right of the row. The editor opens in a new tab.

The editor: the toolbar

Above the document you find page navigation, thumbnails, zoom and undo/redo. In addition there are two tools for the redaction itself, and the Approve and Save buttons sit at the top of the panel on the left.

1. Approve saves the document and runs the final redaction. The document is locked afterwards.
2. Save stores the current version of your changes. The editor also autosaves every 10 seconds.
3. Draw redaction (select area) marks a whole area, such as pictures, signatures, stamps or entire paragraphs.
4. Search opens the search panel where you find and redact text. Ctrl/⌘+F does the same.

The entity panel

The panel on the left lists all the personal data AnteRedact has found, grouped by category (Person, Address, E-mail …) with counts. Everything in the panel is redacted when you approve.

• Every row shows the text, the number of occurrences and the alias that replaces it (e.g. P1, P2, depending on your settings).
• Grouped occurrences: all mentions of the same person, such as “Emma Walker”, “E. Walker” and “Walker”, are collected under one alias. Expand the group with the arrow.
• Click an occurrence to jump to it in the document.
• Drag an occurrence onto another entity to merge them, or drop it on Split to new entity to give it its own alias.
• The gear icon , shown when you hover over an entity, edits the alias and category.
• The trash icon next to it deletes the entity so it is not redacted.
• Preview Redaction at the top of the panel shows what the document looks like with the redactions applied, while they can still be edited.
• A red “!” marks low-confidence findings that deserve a second look.

Add a redaction by selecting text

If the AI has missed something, simply select the text in the document. The search panel opens with your selection filled in and shows every occurrence in the document.

Choose the category under Label, optionally give it an alias, or group it with an existing entity under Group with. Untick any occurrences you want to leave out and click Add … selected. Double-click and drag to select whole words. The new entity appears in the panel on the left.

Redact pictures, signatures and areas

If the text cannot be selected, for example in a picture, a signature or a stamp, use Draw redaction (select area) in the toolbar and drag a box over the area.

Areas appear in the entity panel as “Area 1, Page 3” and can be deleted like any other entity. In Word documents, embedded images are redacted with the image tool in the toolbar.

Approve

When you are happy with the result, click Approve and confirm with Approve and close. The document is locked, the redaction runs and the status changes to Redacted. The personal data is removed from the file itself, not just covered with a box.

If several documents should be approved without review, tick them in the list and click Approve there.

Download

Download the redacted document with the arrow icon in the row. You can also tick several documents with the checkboxes and click Download to get them together in a zip file.