Guides
Removing Data
Completely remove detected PII from text with PrivacyGuard.remove.
PrivacyGuard.remove() deletes detected PII spans entirely.
Basic removal
from fastpii import PrivacyGuard
guard = PrivacyGuard(regions=["cz"])
text = "Kontakt: jan.novak@email.cz, RČ 8001011238, IČO 25596641"
cleaned = guard.remove(text)
print(cleaned)Output:
Kontakt: , RČ , IČO Remove PII before storage
from fastpii import PrivacyGuard
guard = PrivacyGuard(regions=["cz"])
note = "Jan Novák can be contacted at jan.novak@email.cz"
stored_note = guard.remove(note)
print(stored_note)Possible output:
can be contacted at Use remove() when the sensitive data should not remain in the text at all.