PRIVACY
Your session stays in this tab.
ScannerBench processes scan text, comparisons, imported files and device notes in your browser. The application has no upload endpoint, accounts, remote parser or automatic error reporting.
What the browser retains
Captures and settings live in memory. Reloading or closing the page loses the session. Clear session removes the app’s references to captures, expected text, imports, report previews and device details. It does not delete downloaded files, your system clipboard or files you originally imported. Session data is not written to local storage, cookies or IndexedDB.
Capture listeners are attached to the visible capture field, not the whole document. The tool reads paste text only during your paste action in that field; it never polls or reads the clipboard in the background.
Review before sharing
Reports are redacted by default: captured text, key values, expected values, rule arguments, imported identifiers and free-text device notes are omitted. Lengths, counts, timing, completion reasons, comparison outcomes, browser family/version and software versions remain. Even a redacted report can reveal operational characteristics.
Choose the full-report checkbox only if you want all captures, event details, paste text, expectations, rule arguments and device context included. The preview shows the content before download. JSON and printable HTML are generated locally with generic filenames. Nothing is automatically emailed, uploaded or shared.
Network requests and links
Loading the site retrieves its own HTML, JavaScript, CSS and favicon. Hosting providers may record ordinary request metadata such as IP addresses and paths under their hosting policy; scan values are not placed in requests. Core capture and comparison need no further requests once assets have loaded. This is not an installed offline app.
External manual and suite links open only when selected. Suite links carry no tracking marker and no barcode, device or report value. Those destination sites have their own policies. The Send feedback link opens our feedback form and carries only the tool's name, its version and the screen it was opened from; leaving your email address there is optional.
Reporting an issue
Use the contact route on SmartFACT. Start with a redacted report and a synthetic example where possible. Never post operational values publicly just to obtain help.
Saved work summary (Your workbench)
ScannerBench keeps no work in your browser, so it never adds to this summary. Its menu reads the summary to show where you have saved work in other SmartFACT free tools, which keep a small cookie named sf_workbench, set for smartfact.ai so that each free tool can read it.
What it stores: for each free tool with work saved on this device, a short name for the tool (for example countbench), how many items are saved there (up to 999) and when that tool last saved. What it does not store: titles, codes, scans, file names, values, notes or anything you typed, and nothing that identifies you or your device.
Where it is sent: the free tools read it in your browser. Like any cookie, your browser also includes it when it requests a free tool's application pages on smartfact.ai (addresses ending in /app/). SmartFACT does not use it on its servers, does not include it in analytics and does not share it.
How long it lasts: 180 days after a free tool last updated it, and each free tool you open updates it. Some browsers, including Safari, delete it 7 days after it was last updated, which is about as long as they keep the saved work itself without a visit.
How to clear it: choose Clear the summary under Your workbench in any free tool's menu, or delete your browser's cookies for smartfact.ai. Clearing it does not delete any saved work; a tool with saved work adds its line again the next time you open it.
Videos
Some pages show a video. Until you press play it is a picture from this website, and nothing is loaded from YouTube. When you press play, the page loads the video from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced service (youtube-nocookie.com); YouTube then receives your connection and device information and may store data in your browser, under Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can also watch the video on YouTube itself.
Optional analytics
Obsidian Black Ltd operates this site. With your consent, we use Google Analytics to understand visits to our pages and tools. The Google tag stays off until you accept. Rejecting analytics does not affect the tool.
Google receives page views, browser and device details, connection information and cookie identifiers. Our events use fixed page names and do not include query strings, fragments, scans, uploaded or imported file contents, device notes or card text. Referrers are reduced to their origins. When you follow a link to another SmartFACT product or service from these pages or the tool, one suite_cta_click event records only this tool’s name, the destination product and a fixed name for where the link appeared. It never includes the link address, its query string or anything you entered. Advertising personalisation is disabled.
Your analytics choice is remembered for 180 days in a preference cookie shared across smartfact.ai and its subdomains, including product websites and apps. Use Analytics settings on any site to accept or reject analytics across the suite. Google Analytics cookies remain specific to each host and last up to 180 days. Open pages check for changes; other sites remove their analytics cookies when next opened or resumed. Enquiry and contact consent remain product-specific.
Google processes analytics data under its own arrangements, which may involve processing outside the UK. See the Google privacy policy. Contact [email protected] about your information or to exercise your data rights. You can also raise a concern with the UK Information Commissioner at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/. Downloaded reports, projects and PDFs do not contain analytics.