Frequently asked questions about AnonymFiles.

A local anonymizer for Mac and Windows: it detects names, addresses, contact details and identifiers across a whole case file, replaces them with labels on your computer, then puts the real names back into the AI's answer. No document leaves your computer.

Not at all. AnonFiles was an online file hosting service, shut down in 2023. AnonymFiles is installed software that sends nothing online.

There is a 14-day trial with every feature. After that, €290 excl. VAT per seat per year, €240 from 3 seats, with no page quota. Pricing.

Apple silicon Macs (M1 or later) and 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 PCs. There is no Linux version. On a computer with 8 GB of memory, the app switches to light detection on its own.

Yes, it exists in French and English: it follows the system language and can be changed in Settings. Labels stay the same ([PERSONNE_1]…).

Text or scanned PDF (local OCR), Word (.docx, and .doc on Mac), .eml and .msg e-mails with their attachments, .xlsx, .xls and .csv spreadsheets, .pptx and .ppt presentations, .jpg, .png and .tif images, text and Markdown files, up to 50 MB per file (10 MB for text and spreadsheets).

French by default. For a case file in English, German, Spanish or Italian, choose the file's language: that country's rules and identifiers apply. OCR reads French and English scans.

Only the copy you give it: the text with its labels, without metadata. The mapping table stays on your computer.

Yes, through the built-in MCP connector, off by default: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and other MCP clients then only read the redacted copies. The MCP connector.

Yes: the « Pour envoyer à quelqu'un » export produces redacted PDF and Word files, with an optional watermark. Watermark a PDF.

Yes: in a PDF, the text under each black box is removed from the file, and each copy is reread in full before export. Why a black box is not enough.

On our corpus of 41 law-firm documents, 374 out of 374 items are found, with no term wrongly masked. No detection is perfect: each document is reviewed side by side before export. The measurement, against Presidio.

Yes, through an indirect detail left visible. The re-identification risk indicator flags what remains (initials, employee IDs, health data…). Re-identification risk.

Copies are prepared on your computer, with no processor: no data is sent to the publisher. Pseudonymization is a security measure named by the GDPR (art. 32). How you then use an AI still needs to be documented. The processing register and AI.

On a Mac, turn off Wi-Fi right after installing: processing is identical. An application firewall confirms it. Security and network scope.

Lawyers, notaries, accountants, commissaires de justice, insolvency practitioners, patent attorneys, in-house counsel and DPOs, healthcare, banking and insurance, HR, the public sector. Use cases.