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Search & Redact

Find any term across thousands of emails, check every match, then redact them all with one click.

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Search and redact in RedactBox: a search for Hannah across a project, with 9 matches in 7 items, each match shown in context with a tick box before redacting

How it works

  1. 1

    Search

    Enter any term: a name, email address, phone number or phrase. Search across all emails at once.

  2. 2

    Preview

    Review every match across your entire archive. See exactly where each term appears and in what context.

  3. 3

    Redact

    Click once to redact every occurrence across your archive. No need to go through each email individually.

Why Search & Redact?

Process Subject Access Requests and FOI responses in far less time.

Process thousands of emails

Search across your entire archive in seconds, whatever its size.

Preview before redacting

Review every match to prevent accidental over-redaction.

Consistent redaction

The same term is redacted the same way everywhere it appears.

Precision search options

Search & Redact offers flexible options to match exactly what you need.

Case-sensitive matching

Distinguish between "Smith" and "SMITH" when precision matters.

Whole-word matching

Search for "John" without matching "Johnson" or "Johnny".

Partial matching

Find all variations of a term across your archive.

Common use cases

Search & Redact is particularly useful in these situations.

Third-party names in SARs

Find and redact every mention of people who aren’t the data subject.

Contact information

Remove phone numbers, email addresses and other personal details that shouldn’t be disclosed.

Sensitive phrases

Redact specific project names, code words or confidential terms across all documents.

FOI exemptions

Apply consistent redaction to commercially sensitive or legally privileged content.

Also available: Highlight to Redact

Prefer to work directly in your emails? Highlight to Redact lets you select text in any email and redact matching content across your entire archive.

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Redact current email only

Make targeted redactions in a single email.

Redact across all emails

Apply the same redaction to matching text throughout your archive.

Questions

Search & Redact is a feature in RedactBox that lets you search across your entire email archive for specific terms and bulk redact all matches with a single click. It is designed for Subject Access Requests (SARs) and Freedom of Information (FOI) responses.

Search & Redact can process thousands of emails simultaneously. There is no limit to the number of emails you can search through in a single operation.

Yes. Search & Redact shows every match across your archive before you apply any redactions. You can review exactly where each term appears and in what context to prevent accidental over-redaction.

Yes. Search & Redact supports both case-sensitive and case-insensitive matching, as well as whole-word matching to distinguish between similar terms like "Smith" and "Smithson".

Search & Redact lets you type a term and find all matches across your archive for bulk redaction. Highlight to Redact lets you select text directly within an email and apply redaction to the current email or across all emails containing matching text. Both tools work together for comprehensive redaction workflows.

Save hours on your next request

For a typical SAR with 500 emails, manually searching for and redacting a single name might take 30 to 60 minutes. With Search & Redact, the same task takes under a minute.

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