Dishwasher

The Dishwasher is designed to censor personal information that may appear in chat conversations. It combines multiple methods to detect sensitive entities in text. It also clears the user information

Regex

Regex (Regular Expressions) is the most straightforward method. Entities are defined using specific patterns, and the function searches the text for matches. Regex is reliable when the input follows expected formats, but it may be less effective when handling misspellings or more complex structures.

Email

Pattern: [a-zåäöA-ZÅÄÖ0-9]+[\._]?[a-zåäöA-ZÅÄÖ0-9]+[@]\w+[.]\w{2,3}

Examples (matches):

✅ [e-mail]

✅ [e-mail]

✅ någon@exempel.åäö

✅ [e-mail] Examples (non-matches):

❌ @example.com

❌ user@.com

❌ user@examp

❌ user@example..com

Social number

Pattern: (19|20)([0-9]{4,6})([-+]|\s)?([0-9]{4})|([0-9]{2})([0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9])([-+]|\s)?([0-9]{4})

Examples (matches):

✅ 19900101-1234

✅ 199001011234

✅ 900101-1234

✅ 9001011234

✅ 18991231+5678

Credit card number

Pattern: (4\d{3}|5[1-5]\d{2}|6011)(-?\s?)(\d{4})(-?\s?)(\d{4})(-?\s?)(\d{4}|3[4,7]\d{13})

Card type	Begins with	Digits	Example
Visa	4xxx	16	4123-5678-9012-3456
Mastercard	51-55xx	16	5214-5678-9012-3456
Discovery	6011	16	6011-5678-9012-3456
American Express	34,37	15	371234567890123

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Multilingual anonymiser model

🔗ai4privacy/llama-ai4privacy-multilingual-categorical-anonymiser-openpii · Hugging Face

This is a bidirectional, encoder-only Transformer model trained to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) from multilingual text. It goes beyond simple pattern matching and can identify entities in more complex or unstructured formats.

Entities detected by this model include:

• AGE

• BUILDINGNUM

• CITY

• CREDITCARDNUMBER

• DATE

• DRIVERLICENSENUM

• EMAIL

• GENDER

• GIVENNAME

• IDCARDNUMBER

• PASSPORTNUM

• SEX

• SOCIALNUM

• STREET

• SURNAME

• TAXNUM

• TELEPHONENUM

• TIME

• TITLE

• ZIPCODE

Swedish anonymiser model

🔗 RecordedFuture/Swedish-NER · Hugging Face

This model is similar to the Multilingual anonymiser but specifically trained on Swedish data.

Entities detected by this model include:

• LOCATION

• ORGANIZATION

• PERSON

• RELIGION

• TITLE