Description

n8n-nodes-doccape

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This is an n8n community node for integrating doccape into your n8n workflows. doccape is an anonymization solution for text and various file formats. It is a product of scitlab.

Installation

Follow the installation guide in the n8n community nodes documentation.

Operations

The node exposes two resources: Text and File:

• Anonymize Text — Send text to doccape and receive the anonymized result.
• Anonymize File — Upload a binary file, poll doccape until processing finishes, and return the anonymized file as binary data. Optionally deletes the document from doccape afterwards.

Credentials

You need a doccape account and an API key. Register at doccape to obtain one. See our getting started guide for more details.

Create a Doccape API credential in n8n with:

• API Base URL — The base URL of your doccape instance (defaults to https://app.doccape.de).
• API Key — Your doccape API key. It is sent as a Bearer token. For more information about API keys, see the doccape documentation.

Compatibility

Requires n8n n8nNodesApiVersion 1. Developed and tested against n8n 2.31.4; older or more recent versions are expected to work but have not been explicitly tested.

Usage

Anonymizing text

Set the Text field to the text you want to process. Enable Use Pseudonyms to replace PII with labels like PER-1 or LOC-1, or disable it for a generic placeholder (*). Use PII Classes to Detect* to control which categories are detected (comma-separated, e.g. PER,STR,LOC,ORG).

Anonymizing files

For files you can configure both text and image anonymization:

• Text PII Classes to Detect — Comma-separated PII categories (e.g. PER,STR,LOC,ORG).
• Use Pseudonyms — Replace PII with labels like PER-1 or LOC-1, or disable for a generic placeholder (**).
• Image PII Classes to Detect — Comma-separated categories (e.g. text,face,licenceplate,qrcode).
• Image Anonymization Type — Mask, Blur, or Pixelate.

Use Anonymize File for a one-step flow that uploads, waits for processing, and returns the finished file. Adjust Polling Interval and Polling Timeout to control how long the node waits, and Delete Document After Anonymization to control cleanup.

Enable Include Detected PIIs to attach detections on $json.piis. That payload often contains original values — do not pass it into LLM or agent prompts; use it for audit or post-response re-identification instead.

The supported PII labels can be retrieved via the doccape API:

• Text labels: GET /external/v1/text-labels
• Image labels: GET /external/v1/image-labels

See the doccape API documentation for details.

Resources

• n8n community nodes documentation
• doccape
• doccape API documentation
• doccape documentation