Named Entity Recognition Server 26.2
Named Entity Recognition Server Reference

# RedactFromText

You can use the `RedactFromText` action to submit text in the `Text` HTTP parameter, and return the input text with any matches that contain confidential or sensitive data redacted.

## Example

    http://localhost:13000/?action=RedactFromText&Text=The driver Joe Bloggs was questioned.

This action might result in output similar to the following XML:

    <autnresponse>
    <action>REDACTROMTEXT</action>
    <response>SUCCESS</response>
    <responsedata>
    <autn:redacted_output>The driver [redacted] was questioned</autn:redacted_output>
    </responsedata>
    </autnresponse>

## Required Parameters

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
Text | The input text to process.

## Optional Parameters

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
AllowMultipleResults | Whether to return multiple results for a single match.
AllowOverlaps | Whether to return more than one entity from any one section of text.
CaseNormalization | The case conversion to use for all incoming text.
CJKNormalization | How to normalize Chinese, Japanese, and Korean data before extraction.
EnableComponents | Whether to return all the components of the entity as well as the entity itself.
EnableUniqueMatches | Whether to return only unique matches in each document.
Entities | The entities to use for the extraction.
Grammars | The grammar files to use for the extraction.
Locale | Enables tokenization of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai languages.
MatchCase | Whether to ignore case when matching characters.
MatchTimeout | The maximum amount of time (in seconds) to spend searching for matches (to all chosen entities) at a specific offset.
MatchWholeWord | Whether to take account of word boundaries when matching.
MaxEntityLength | The maximum number of characters in a returned entry.
MinScore | Matches only items with scores equal to or exceeding the threshold.
NonGreedyMatch | Whether to return the shortest match.
RedactionOutputString | A string that replaces redacted information in the output text.
RedactionReplacementCharacter | A single character that replaces each character in redacted text.
RedactionType | Whether to replace a match with the normalized form of the text rather than a censored string or replacement character.
RequestTimeout | The maximum amount of time (in seconds) to spend processing the request.
TangibleCharacters | A list of punctuation characters to treat as part of the word.
TokenWithPunctuation | Whether to treat all punctuation characters as part of a word token, rather than treating them as word boundaries

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Named Entity Recognition Server 26.2

Topic Title: RedactFromText