Maskly finds Aadhaar cards in photos, scans and PDFs and masks the first 8 digits and the QR code automatically, keeping the last 4 for matching. Run it through an API, on your own servers or inside DocVault, for new uploads and for the archives you already hold.
An Aadhaar number travels further than it should: KYC copies, email attachments, shared folders. Maskly lets you keep the document and lose the risk.
Every unmasked copy in a KYC file, a loan folder or an inbox is personal data you must protect. Masking the first 8 digits keeps the copy useful and removes most of the risk.
RBI's KYC Master Direction asks regulated entities to ensure the Aadhaar number on a submitted copy is redacted or blacked out where Aadhaar authentication isn't required.
A masked Aadhaar shows only the last 4 digits. That's the format Maskly produces: the first 8 digits and the QR code are covered, the last 4 stay readable.
India's data protection law expects reasonable security safeguards for personal data. Keeping less of it, in masked form, is one of the simplest.
General information, not legal advice. Your compliance team decides what your organisation must mask and keep.
Each step hands its result to the next. Nothing is written to disk on the way, and the original is deleted once you have your copy.
A phone photo, a scan or a PDF, from your application, a DocVault folder or an archive. Before any masking starts, the file is checked for what it really is, not what its name says.
A valid image moves on to be read.
Photos come in sideways, upside down or at an angle. Maskly corrects the orientation and skew, then locates the Aadhaar card and its QR code in the image.
With the card found, the number can be read.
Text recognition reads the card and picks out the 12-digit Aadhaar number, printed across or down the card. A card that is already masked is recognised and left alone.
Now the masking itself.
The first eight digits are covered with a solid block, in the format of a masked Aadhaar. The last four stay readable so the card can still be matched to a person. The QR code is covered completely.
The masked copy goes back where it came from.
Your application collects the masked image through the API, or DocVault replaces the stored file with its masked version. Through the API, each result is released once, to the request that made it, then erased.
And then it's forgotten.
Your image is held in memory only, never saved to disk or a database. We never store the Aadhaar number, your file name, or anything read from the card. An audit log records each request, never its content.
digits hidden; the last 4 stay readable
code masked too, since it carries personal details
only: no GPU needed, runs on ordinary servers
images, numbers or file names stored
The masking engine runs as a container in your data centre or cloud account, with a REST API your applications call. Images never leave your network, and it runs on ordinary CPUs.
Built into DocVault document management: files are masked automatically in chosen folders at upload, as a workflow step, or on demand.
Mask the scans you already hold. Bulk jobs in DocVault run over whole folders, mask every stored version, and report each skipped file with the reason.
Accounts, PDFs and batches through our hosted service, sized to your volume. The same request–status–download API already runs our online trial.
See the integration for yourself. The free trial walks through the API flow your systems would use: a key, an upload, the status and the masked result, with access rules applied.
Try it freeKYC copies and loan files keep the last four digits for matching, without the full number.
Claim and patient files can carry the card without carrying the risk.
Onboarding folders full of ID proofs, masked before they're shared or archived.
Agreements and tenant verification files sent around by email.
Applications and admission files where only the last four digits are needed.
Partner and back-office files that pass through many hands, masked before they travel.
Masking helps you keep less personal data. Whether you may hold an Aadhaar copy at all is a separate legal question for your compliance team.
Tell us your volumes and where the images must stay. We'll size Maskly for you and show it on your own documents.
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