MasklyInside DocVault
Built into DocVault document management. It can mask files automatically in chosen folders, at upload, as a workflow step, or as a bulk job over existing files.
Features
Aadhaar masking features.
Aadhaar masking features.
And what's next.
30 capabilities, each labelled so you know what works today, what's available on request, and what's still planned.
Available 20
On request 2
Planned 7
Deployment
Where it runs, and how it reaches your documents.
On your own servers
Run the engine as a container in your data centre or cloud, so images never leave your network. It runs on ordinary CPUs; no GPU is needed.
Plan on a server with at least 8 GB of memory.
Bulk masking of archives
Inside DocVault, bulk jobs mask whole folders of files you already hold, including every stored version, and report each skipped file with the reason.
Free online trial
Walk through the API flow your systems would use, on your own card, with no sign-up: a key, an upload, the status and the masked result, with access rules applied.
The masking engine
What happens to an image, and what it hides.
First 8 digits hidden, last 4 kept
The first eight digits of the Aadhaar number are covered with a solid block. The last four stay readable, in the format of a masked Aadhaar.
QR code masked
The QR code on the card carries personal details too, so it is found and covered completely.
Card detection
A trained vision model finds the Aadhaar card in the image, including a card that is part of a larger photo or scan.
Number recognition
Two text-recognition engines read the card and pick out the 12-digit number, printed horizontally or vertically.
Rotation and skew correction
Sideways, upside-down and tilted photos are straightened before they are read.
Already-masked cards left alone
A card that already shows a masked number is recognised and not masked a second time.
No card, no change
An image with no Aadhaar number comes back byte-for-byte unchanged, and you're told so.
Same format back
A JPEG comes back as a JPEG and a PNG as a PNG, with the rest of the image untouched.
Files
What you can send.
JPG and PNG
Phone photos and scans, checked by their real content, not their name.
File size and resolution caps are set for your deployment.
TIFF and PDF
The engine also handles TIFF images and PDF documents, page by page, when you run it yourself or inside DocVault.
A masked PDF page becomes an image, so its text can no longer be selected.
Safe file handling
Empty, truncated and damaged files, and files pretending to be images, are refused before processing.
Privacy
What happens to your data.
No image storage
Your image is held in memory only, never saved to disk or a database.
Single-use results
Each masked result is released once, to the request that made it, then erased. Uncollected results are erased automatically after the time you set.
No numbers or names stored
We never store the Aadhaar number (not even the last four), your file name, or anything read from the card.
Audit log
Every request is logged with its time, source, file type and size, and outcome, never the image or anything read from it.
Service and API
How applications and people use it.
Request–status–download API
Send an image, check its status, and collect the masked copy once, with a clear result: masked, no Aadhaar found, or a reason it was refused.
Configurable access rules
Set the rules for your deployment: key expiry, images per key, requests per client in a time window, file size and resolution caps, and how long uncollected results are kept. Keys are tied to the client that requested them, and only a one-way hash of each key is stored.
Queue with honest waits
A bounded queue in front of the engine. Callers see their place in line, and a full queue answers with how long to wait.
No GPU needed
Runs on ordinary CPU servers. Tested on CPU-only hardware: an Intel Core i7 machine (4 cores, 8 threads, 32 GB of memory) and a 2-vCPU, 8 GB cloud server.
On the roadmap
Not available yet. Tell us which ones matter to you.
PDF and TIFF online
Multi-page PDFs and TIFFs through the online service, not only when self-hosted.
Production API accounts
Your own API credentials, higher limits, usage reporting and an SLA for your apps.
Batch masking
Send many images in one request and collect the results together.
Result notifications
A callback to your system when a result is ready, instead of checking its status.
Second-pass check
An extra check on every masked image, which flags any image where a full number might still be readable.
GPU-accelerated hosting
Faster masking on GPU servers for high volumes.
More document types
Exploring masking for other Indian ID documents.
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See it on your documents
The fastest way
The fastest way
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Book a demo on your own documents, or ask our sales team about pricing.