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Tutorial: Customization in Presidio

This tutorial covers different customization use cases to:

1. Adapt Presidio to detect new types of PII entities.
2. Adapt Presidio to detect PII entities in a new language.
3. Embed new types of detection modules into Presidio, to improve the coverage of the service.
4. Operate on identified entities: simple de-identification, custom operators and encryption.

Table of contents

• Getting started
• Deny-list based recognizers
• Regex based PII recognition
• Rule based logic recognizer
• Supporting new models and languages
• Calling an external service for PII detection
• Using context words
• Tracing the decision process
• Loading recognizers from file
• Ad-Hoc recognizers
• Simple anonymization
• Custom anonymization
• Encryption/Decryption