postralai/masquerade

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/postralai/masquerade/main/setup.sh && bash setup.sh
Manual: python3.12 -m venv pdfmcp && source pdfmcp/bin/activate
pip install git+https://github.com/postralai/masquerade@main
python -m masquerade.configure_claude

Usage

• •Prompt Claude: "Redact sensitive information from this PDF: /path/to/filename.pdf"
• •MCP opens the redacted and highlighted PDF files, then upload the redacted PDF to Claude for querying
• •Add the python path, MCP file path and TINFOIL_API_KEY to claude_desktop_config.json

Key features

• ✓Reads a PDF, converts it to text and detects sensitive data (names, emails, dates, entities)
• ✓Redacts sensitive data and creates a redacted PDF
• ✓Returns a summary with masked values, redaction counts per page and the path to the redacted file
• ✓Uses Tinfoil (isolated AI platform running Llama 3.3 70B) for detection

Best for

Safely working with contracts, medical records or internal documents through AI assistants.

Caveats

• ⚠Requires a Tinfoil API key
• ⚠Python version must be >=3.10 and <=3.12
• ⚠Never upload the original PDF to Claude; only pass the file path