# PII asynchronous analysis jobs (API)
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PII async analysis (API) 

You can use asynchronous API operations to create analysis jobs to locate or redact PII entities. For more information about PII entity types, see [Detecting PII entities](how-pii.md).

**Topics**
+ [Locating PII entities](async-pii-api.md)
+ [Redacting PII entities](redact-api-pii.md)