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Supported File Types

Guardian Layer file de-identification. multipart/form-data, file field named file, X-API-Key header. Output comes back with a deid_ filename prefix.

TypeEndpoint (…/deidentify/text/proprietary/outputs/…)Notes
.csv .xlsx .xls/csvReturned in the same format
.docx/docx.doc not accepted — convert first
.pdf/pdfNeeds extractable text (not scanned images)
.txt/txt
Images—Coming soon

See also​

File De-identification · Guardian Layer client