Getting started with Textual
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When you sign up for a Tonic Textual account, you can immediately get started with a new pipeline.
Note that these instructions are for setting up a new account on Textual Cloud. For a self-hosted instance, depending on how it is set up, you might either create an account manually or use single sign-on (SSO).
To get started with a new Textual account:
Go to https://textual.tonic.ai/.
Click Sign up.
Enter your email address.
Create and confirm a password for your Textual account.
Click Sign Up.
Textual creates your account. After you log in, Textual prompts you to provide some additional information about yourself and how you plan to use Textual.
After you fill out the information and click Get Started, Textual displays the Textual Home page, which you can use to preview how Textual detects and replaces values. For more information, go to Previewing Textual detection and redaction.
When you set up an account on Textual Cloud, you start a Textual free trial.
When you start a free trial, Textual provides a checklist to guide you through initial steps to get started and learn more about Textual and what it can do.
The checklist displays automatically when you first log in. You can close and display it as needed. To display the checklist, in the Textual navigation menu, click Getting Started.
As you complete a step, Textual automatically marks it as completed.
The checklist includes:
Using the Home page to preview Textual redaction. When you click the step, you navigate to the Home page. Textual displays a popup panel that describes the task.
Installing the Textual SDK. The checklist displays the installation command and an option to copy it. The step is marked as complete when you click the copy icon.
Creating an API key. When you click the step, you are prompted to create an API key.
Creating an SDK request to redact a text string or a file. When you click the step, you navigate to the Request Explorer. The step is marked as completed when you close the popup panel that describes the task.
During the free trial Textual scans up to 100,000 words for free. Note that Textual counts actual words, not tokens. For example, "Hello, my name is John Smith." counts as six words.
After the 100,000 words, Textual disables scanning for your account. Until you purchase a pay-as-you-go subscription, you cannot:
Add files to a dataset or pipeline
Run a pipeline
During your free trial, Textual displays the current usage in the following locations:
On the Home page
In the navigation menu
Textual also prompts you to purchase a pay-as-you-go subscription, which allows an unlimited number of words scanned for a flat rate per 1,000 words.
You can also request a Textual product demo.
