Xerox's 'Intelligent Redaction' Scanners

coondoggie writes "Xerox today touted software it says can scan documents, understand their meaning and block access to those sensitive or secure areas so that prying eyes cannot read, copy or forward the information. Xerox and researchers from its Palo Alto Research Center debuted "Intelligent Redaction," new software that automates the process of removing confidential information from any document. The software includes a detection tool that uses content analysis and an intelligent user interface to protect sensitive information. It can encrypt only the sensitive sections or paragraphs of a document, a capability previously not available, Xerox said."

Comments

Re:Accuracy? Who Needs It!

[JustJim0183]

Don't you mean censorship ?

Defining the variables

[Rob T Firefly]

Putting aside the fact that OCR and related AI is still just this side of "not very good," for an AI to sucessfully and exclusively redact certain material, someone still has to at some point define the dataset of what is redactable, and feed that data into the machine. Unless, of course, this AI is simply allowed to crawl the networks and glean for itself what's good and bad for us...

Re:Secret != Classified

[cyphergirl]

After actually going to the Xerox website and reading about this new technology, I see that it is built around document routing (for review, for example) and has nothing whatsoever to do with their copier and MFD products. This makes sense, considering that they purchased A***** (can't remember the name), which handles legal discovery production and organization services for several corporations (SCO included). Xerox ("The Document Company") is more than just copiers these days.