Disguise figures

An explanation of number masking: amounts are scaled by a secret factor and percentages replaced by placeholders, while identifiers like IFRS 16 stay. In the grid, figures to be masked are underlined in amber, Copy anonymized shows what would be sent, and a translated segment comes back with the real figures restored.

1. How it works: amounts scaled, percentages replaced, identifiers kept

   Before a segment is sent, its amounts are multiplied by the profile's factor and its percentages replaced by placeholders. IFRS 16 is an identifier, so it stays. The reply is put back the other way.

   

2. Open the document: figures to be masked are underlined in amber

   Open the document. With a number profile attached, every figure it will mask is underlined in amber.

   

3. Point at a figure to see what is sent instead

   Point at one to see what is sent in its place: €87,500 goes as 43,750.

   

4. Click Copy anonymized to see the whole document as it would be sent

   Copy anonymized puts the whole document on the clipboard exactly as it would be sent, so you can check it. Two segments from it: the day of a date is masked, the year is not.

   

5. Click in segment 3 and press Ctrl+Shift+M: the real figures come back

   Click in segment 3 and press Ctrl+Shift+M to translate it. The AI model received the masked figures; AV put the real ones back. Should a figure ever come back in a form AV cannot match, it stays in the target and a red ⚠ marks the segment.

   

The number profile wizard: a sample of your own text, the Combo strategy with a scale factor, the figures it finds, a preview of what would be sent, a simulated round trip that restores the real figures, structural identifiers left alone, and saving the profile.

1. Open Privacy, Obfuscation Profiles and click Create New Profile

   Number profiles are kept under Privacy, on the Obfuscation Profiles tab. One made earlier is already listed. Click Create New Profile.

   

2. In Sample Dataset, choose Your own text…, set the Locale and paste a sample

   The wizard tunes the profile on a sample. In Sample Dataset, choose Your own text…, set the Locale, and paste a few lines like the ones you translate.

   

3. Choose a strategy: Combo

   Scaling multiplies amounts and plain numbers by one secret factor, so their ratios survive, and sends percentages as written. Combo also replaces each percentage with a placeholder. Choose Combo.

   

4. Set the Scale factor

   Combo scales amounts and plain numbers and replaces percentages. Set the Scale factor: here, 0.5. A range instead draws one factor for each project, and keeps it.

   

5. Check the figures the profile finds

   Step 4 lists every figure the profile finds in your sample. When it runs, all of them are masked.

   

6. Check the Preview of what would be sent

   The Preview shows the sample as it would be sent: amounts halved, percentages replaced by placeholders, IFRS 16 and § 5 left as written.

   

7. Click Simulate LLM Response, then Test Restore

   Simulate LLM Response reworks the masked text the way an AI model might, without calling one. Test Restore then puts the real figures back.

   

8. Add your own structural identifiers (* as a wildcard)

   References such as IFRS 16 and § 5 are left alone. Add your own, with as a wildcard: "Section " keeps section numbers as written.

   

9. Name the profile and click Save Profile

   Name the profile and click Save Profile. It joins the list, ready for a project.

   

A project's Privacy Configuration with no number profile, then a profile attached (saved at once), switched to another and back, and the profile opened for editing from the Obfuscation Profiles list.

1. Open the project's Privacy Configuration: Numerical Obfuscation shows None

   Open the project and its Privacy Configuration. With no number profile, Numerical Obfuscation shows None, and the note says figures are sent as written.

   

2. Click Change…

   Click Change…. Every number profile is offered, with None (no profile) at the top to take one off again.

   

3. Choose the profile: it is saved at once

   Choose the new profile. It is saved at once, and the note now names the profile that masks this project's numbers.

   

4. To switch, click Change… and choose another

   To switch, click Change… again and choose another. With Scaling, this project's percentages would be sent as written.

   

5. Switch back to the Combo profile

   Switch back to the Combo profile.

   

6. To edit a profile, click its pencil under Privacy, Obfuscation Profiles

   To change a profile, click its pencil under Privacy → Obfuscation Profiles. The wizard opens at Configure. A change applies to every project that uses the profile.