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# Redaction

Use the Tonic Textual Python SDK to redact individual strings and files.

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Redact strings</strong></td><td>Send plain text, JSON, or XML strings for redaction.</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/BxhcC6huQr769oFkRZ64">/pages/BxhcC6huQr769oFkRZ64</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Redact individual files</strong></td><td>Send a file for redaction and retrieve the results.</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/eLV54xHAIsSGVsKoG6pi">/pages/eLV54xHAIsSGVsKoG6pi</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Transcribe and redact audio files</strong></td><td>Send and audio file to be transcribed and retrieve the redacted transcription.</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/LHutyfcsNlj8lkbPC4H5">/pages/LHutyfcsNlj8lkbPC4H5</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Configure entity type handling</strong></td><td>Configure how Textual treats each type of entity in a dataset, redacted file, or redacted string.</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/SwQC2u7mlJ0LAnT3u2t6">/pages/SwQC2u7mlJ0LAnT3u2t6</a></td></tr></tbody></table>


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