Automatically redact PII in images with Amazon Nova

In this post, we present a multi-step pipeline directed by Amazon Nova, which uses its contextual vision reasoning to coordinate complementary tools, including Meta’s open-source Segment Anything Model (SAM 3) deployed on Amazon SageMaker AI for pixel-level segmentation, and Amazon Textract for optical character recognition (OCR). This pipeline is designed to provide comprehensive and compliant PII redaction even for challenging edge cases such as fingerprints, ID cards, or license plates in arbitrary orientations.