Show HN: Sanitizer – Strip sensitive data from documents locally before an LLM

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Sanitizer | Provexar

🛡️Sanitizer<br>Convert · Sanitize · Index— before anything reaches an LLM

AI assistants are at their best when they can read your project documents — and at their most dangerous when those documents carry things they were never meant to see. Sanitizer prepares document packages that are safe, light, and built for how AI actually reads.<br>Download Personal — freeBusiness in Microsoft Store<br>Read the privacy policy

Choose your edition<br>Local by design. Licensed for how you use it.

Business & commercial<br>Sanitizer (Business)<br>Prepare company documents for AI without exposing client identities, credentials, or other sensitive data. Turn large project files into a clean, searchable knowledge base so teams get faster, more precise answers with less noise.

$49.99<br>15-day free trial, then $49.99 · automatic updates · in Microsoft Store.<br>Get it on the Microsoft Store

Free for personal use<br>Sanitizer (Personal)<br>Use AI with your personal documents while keeping private details under your control. Sanitizer cleans, converts, and organizes files locally so your AI assistant can find the right information without reading everything.

Free<br>Version 1.0.1 · Windows 10/11 (64-bit) · ~450 MB · installs per-user, no admin required.<br>Download SanitizerSetup.exe

SHA-256 (verify your download matches)<br>8C6300B284D1BB489FB49DE97D964AB33F3CD29BCE5DB6357BCF2C9DBD0007CFCheck it in PowerShell:Get-FileHash .\SanitizerSetup.exe -Algorithm SHA256

A note on the Personal installer: it isn't code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC." That's expected for a free direct download — click More info → Run anyway . Verifying the SHA-256 above confirms the file is exactly the one we published. The Microsoft Store edition is signed by Microsoft and installs without any warning.

01<br>🛡️<br>Nothing sensitive ever reaches an AI<br>Every document is scrubbed on this computer, before any AI is involved: names, contacts, client identities, credentials, keys — removed or replaced with opaque tokens per your project policy. Originals and the un-redact vault stay in Sanitizer's private storage; the AI-ready workspace contains sanitized material only. In reversible mode, answers can be un-redacted locally — so the AI works blind, but you don't.

02<br>🪶<br>Heavy formats in, lightweight files out<br>A 40 MB PDF or Word file is mostly baggage: layout data, embedded fonts, metadata, binary bloat. Sanitizer converts everything to clean Markdown and flat CSV — the same content at a fraction of the size. Your AI spends its tokens and its context window on the actual engineering text, not on format garbage, which makes answers cheaper and sharper.

03<br>🔎<br>A searchable database, not a pile of files<br>Every document is chunked and indexed twice — a full-text index for exact terms, tags and standards references, and a semantic index that finds passages by meaning. AI agents get purpose-built retrieval tools automatically, so they pull the five relevant paragraphs instead of swallowing five hundred pages, and cite the page they came from.

LOCAL<br>Everything — conversion, OCR, sanitation, indexing, search — runs locally. No cloud services, no uploads, no accounts. The only thing an AI ever sees is what's left after Sanitizer is done.

Personal-use license terms<br>Effective 2026 · Provexar · info@provexar.ai<br>01<br>Grant of license<br>Provexar grants you a free, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use the Sanitizer (Personal) edition on computers you own or control, for your own personal, non-commercial purposes.

02<br>Commercial use requires the Business edition<br>Use of Sanitizer by or for a company, organization, government body, or in the course of paid or professional work is commercial use and is not covered by this license. Commercial and business use is licensed through the Sanitizer (Business) edition on the Microsoft Store.

03<br>Restrictions<br>You may not sell, rent, sublicense, or redistribute the installer or the software; remove or alter its notices; or reverse-engineer it except to the extent that right cannot be waived under applicable law. You may make copies only as needed for your own personal use and backup.

04<br>Local operation and your data<br>Sanitizer runs on your computer and processes your documents locally. You are responsible for the documents you process and for reviewing sanitized output before sharing it. See our privacy policy.

05<br>No warranty<br>The software is provided "as is," without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. You use it at your own risk.

06<br>Limitation of liability<br>To the maximum extent permitted by law, Provexar is not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, or for any loss of data, arising from use of the software.

07<br>Third-party components<br>Sanitizer includes open-source components under their own licenses, listed in the THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES file included with the app.

08<br>Termination<br>This...

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