Auto-Redaction

Before sharing a screenshot, you often need to hide sensitive details — an email address in a header, an IP address in a log, a phone number in a contact card. Savvyshot's Redaction tool finds this kind of text automatically and lets you cover it in one step.

How it works

Savvyshot runs on-device text recognition (OCR) over your screenshot:

• Windows — uses the built-in Windows OCR engine.
• macOS — uses Apple's on-device Vision framework.

Recognition happens entirely on your machine — nothing is sent to a server.

Using the redaction tool

1. Open the Redaction section of the editor tools.
2. Enable detection for the categories you want to find:
   • Email addresses
   • IP addresses
   • Phone numbers
   • Credit card numbers
3. Savvyshot scans the image and highlights matches.
4. Choose how matches are covered:
   • Solid color — pick a color to fully block out the matched text.
   • Blur — blur the matched text instead, with an adjustable blur intensity slider.

Notes

• Redaction is applied to the areas detected by OCR — always review the result before sharing, since OCR may occasionally miss text (e.g. stylized fonts, low contrast, or partially obscured text).
• For anything OCR doesn't catch, use the Blur tool manually to cover it by hand.
• Redaction is available on both Windows and macOS.