In today’s data-driven world, enterprises hold vast amounts of valuable information within documents like paystubs, credit applications, and tax forms. However while data privacy law protects individuals and companies alike from the misuse of personal data, compliance regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, POPIA, CCPA, and FOIA create significant barriers to using this valuable data for critical business functions like analytics, process improvement, and the training of internal AI models.
But what if you could safely anonymize your documents at scale, removing all Personal Identifiable Information (PII) without sacrificing the utility of the data?
The Hyperscience Hypercell platform offers an enterprise-grade Redaction and Masking with Synthetic Data workflow that provides organizations with a reliable and automated method to identify, supervise, and anonymize PII within their documents. Designed for high-stakes compliance environments, the workflow has been successfully tested and deployed in customer environments, enabling businesses to leverage their data for analytics and AI model training without compromising security or regulatory obligations.
Turning Compliance Into Competitive Advantage
Organizations across industries face growing pressure to protect sensitive data while still making it usable for critical operations and innovation. Redaction and Masking with Synthetic Data capabilities bridge that gap, helping enterprises meet strict compliance standards, streamline global processes, and safely unlock the full potential of their data.
Guarantee Compliance and Secure Information Sharing
One of the most critical values of automated PII handling is mitigating compliance risk. The Redaction and Masking with Synthetic Data workflow is successfully deployed in the most demanding security and compliance environments to establish a timely, compliant, and secure information-sharing process.
Notably, the workflow includes an optional Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) supervision stage which gives reviewers a way to verify every detected entity before anonymization occurs. This step can provide total peace of mind and clear governance to meet all compliance requirements.
For example, A U.S. federal agency utilizes this workflow to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The solution is configured to accurately redact all PII pertaining to third parties who have not provided consent, while leaving the original requester’s information visible for traceability.
Enable Global Operations and Profit Optimization
Many high-volume, back-office processes involve manual keying, which can be outsourced to lower-cost providers. However, this is often impossible when documents contain sensitive PII.
Hyperscience automatically masks PII with realistic synthetic values, allowing offshore staff to securely process and classify documents without interrupting the workflow. This capability can increase profit margins by permitting the use of lower-cost keying providers in a remote location while securely masking PII data for privacy and compliance.
Accelerate AI Model Training with Synthetic Data
Compliance should not mean sacrificing innovation. Data Masking with Synthetic Data, solves the problem of training internal AI models while protecting sensitive customer data. When data is masked, PII is replaced with realistic, synthetically generated data that maintains the original document’s structure, format, and data type. This high-fidelity, structurally identical, but fully anonymized dataset is ideal for analytics and AI model training.
For example, a current banking customer trains Hyperscience Field Identification models with customer data. To avoid the costly and time-consuming process of deleting and retraining models due to GDPR’s “Right to be Forgotten”, the bank is looking to replace PII in its training data with synthetic data. This approach unlocks the full potential of AI model training, avoids compliance risks, and preserves data utility for the bank.
How it works: A simple yet powerful process
Within the Hyperscience Hypercell, Redaction and Masking with Synthetic Data is a robust, configurable workflow that automates the process of creating safe, compliant document versions. The process is built on a foundation of proven technology and guarantees accuracy through essential human oversight.
Our solution intelligently processes your documents in a seamless, four-step flow, designed for maximum accuracy and security.
- Full-Page Transcription: We begin by ingesting your document—whether scanned or digital—and using our powerful AI to transcribe its entire contents, including both printed and handwritten text.
- Intelligent PII Detection: Our sophisticated models automatically scan the transcribed text to identify all sensitive data. This includes standard PII like names, addresses, and ID numbers, as well as complex entities like signatures and custom data patterns specific to your business.
- 100% Human-in-the-Loop Supervision: For clients who require it, the workflow can present every identified piece of PII to a human reviewer in an intuitive supervision interface. This allows your team to give final approval, guaranteeing that no sensitive data is missed.
- Secure Anonymization: Once verified, the PII is either:
- Masked: Replaced with realistic, synthetically generated text that maintains the original document’s format and structure.
- Redacted: Completely obscured with opaque black boxes.
The final output is a clean, safe-to-use document, ready for your analytics or AI training pipelines.
Securely Put Your Data to Work with Hyperscience
Redaction and Masking with Synthetic Data delivers an automated, reliable method to identify, supervise, and anonymize PII within documents. This expanded capability, highlighted as part of the Hypercell Winter 2025 (R42) release, unlocks your document data for mission-critical uses, ensuring compliance while maximizing the value of your AI and analytics initiatives.
Ready to put your data to work, securely?
Schedule a demo with our team today to see how our Redaction and Masking with Synthetic Data workflow can help you achieve total compliance and unlock new possibilities.