Is there a quick way to remove personal information from TMs?

We have a few TMs with lots of personal information we'd like to remove, is there a quick way of doing this? We're talking about names, phone numbers, file and account numbers, addresses..

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  • I guess, seeing as you even wish to go further than the TMX Anonymizer app will go (that will remove the field attributes but not content inside a TU), that a manual exercise is the way to go.  If it was me I'd do this:

    1. Export to TMX
    2. Search & Replace using regular expressions for appropriate patterns
      [A-Z]\S* (will find proper nouns... but also false positives as you mentioned so would need manually checking each one)
      [A-Z]\S*\s[A-Z]\S* (will find Paul Filkin for example as it looks for two words together, so more likely to be someones name, but still needs checking)
      Tel[:\s+\d()]* (just an example of something to find possible telephone numbers)

    So a bit of a manual exercise but it might be the sort of thing you are looking for?  Alternatively use the search features in Studio in the TM Maintenance View and delete any TUs altogether that contain personal information.

    Just an idea...

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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