RedactBox
New: People Detection

Redact a whole email archive

Upload mailboxes and PDFs, redact each name once across every document it’s in, and export with a record of each decision.

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Free for one document, no card needed. Professional is £25 a month.
RedactBox People and identifiers on a demo project: the list of people found, with Harriet Vance open, showing what gets redacted, extracts of how the name is used, and a Redact in all 24 documents button
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Triage, redact, export

Sort what’s in scope, black out what can’t go out, then export the response. Pick a step to watch it.

Filter thousands of items, then approve, flag or trash each with one key.

What’s in RedactBox

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People Detection

RedactBox lists the people it finds in your documents. Redact someone once and they’re redacted everywhere they appear.

How People Detection works
People and identifiers in RedactBox, listing the people found in a project with the next person to decide open on the right

Search & Redact

Find a name, phrase or number and redact every match across the project.

Duplicate Detection

Sent and Inbox exports overlap. RedactBox finds the copies so you redact each email once.

Word Lists

Save the names that keep coming up and redact the whole list in one go.

Multi-Format Processing

MBOX, PST, EML, MSG and PDF in one project.

Audit Trail

Every redaction is logged with who made it, when and why. Each export includes a Schedule of Redactions.

Project Sharing

Invite colleagues as editors or viewers and see who’s working on which item.

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Who it’s for

Schools and trusts

Keep the parent and pupil in, and redact other pupils and families in one run.

Redaction for schools

Subject access requests

Keep the requester in and black out third parties, with a reason recorded for each.

SAR redaction checklist

FOI and disclosure

Remove duplicate emails first, then redact exempt information across every mailbox.

How to redact emails

Try it on your next request

Free for one document, no card needed.

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Questions

Upload the mailboxes and documents in scope and triage them down to what’s relevant. Redact third-party data with People Detection, Search & Redact and word lists. Then export redacted PDFs with a Schedule of Redactions and a CSV log.

Yes. People Detection lists everyone who sent or received a message, plus names in quoted replies, sign-offs and addresses in the text. Decide once per person and it’s applied to every approved document, and anyone you name in Request details always stays in. It also finds phone numbers, postcodes, NHS and National Insurance numbers, sort codes and card numbers.

PDF, MBOX (Gmail, Google Vault), PST (Outlook, Microsoft Purview), EML and MSG. There are guides for exporting from Google Vault and Microsoft Purview.

Free covers one project with one document up to 500 MB, and its exports are watermarked. Professional is £25 a month for documents up to 3 GB each, with clean exports and sharing. Team licences are billed on one invoice.

Yes, on Professional. Invite colleagues by email as editors or viewers. Editors redact, triage, upload and export with you and need their own Professional plan. Viewers review for free. You can see who is in the project and which item each person has open.

Uploads are stored in the UK and processed in the EU, and billing runs through Stripe in the US. We’re registered with the ICO, and our DPA and sub-processors are published. Redactions are burned into exported files, so they can’t be lifted back off.

Anything else? Email support@redactbox.co.uk.

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