Deploying Presidio as a nuget package

[palirashmi]

Can I wrap presidio and deploy as a nuget package to be used by a c# application?

[SharonHart]

Hi @palirashmi
We have done something similar in the past but haven't released anything official yet.
We did it using swagger-codegen, giving the Open API spec file as input and instantly got good results, without any alterations as I recall. I encourage you do to the same until anything official will be released.

[palirashmi]

I found something called python.installed where i can actually install pip and then may be presidio-analyzer and anonymizer package.. does that seem like a good option?
The link to the article is this: I am referring to below image
https://medium.com/scisharp/using-python-libraries-in-net-without-a-python-installation-11124d6190cf

[omri374]

Hi @palirashmi, this sounds like an interesting approach. If you get to test it, please let us know if this worked well.
The blog post mentions a slowdown of a factor of 4. If this is an issue for you, I would also suggest you try @SharonHart 's approach of running Presidio in docker and calling its API from the C# app.

[agonzalezm]

any progress on this? i would like to use this is sdk in c# app as nuget package?

SpacyDotNet Wrapper is using Python.NET to create a nuget package for spacy net wrapper:

https://spacy.io/universe/project/SpacyDotNet

[agonzalezm]

no, not sure how to start with this. If you can provide official package in this way would be great!

[agonzalezm]

@SharonHart Can anyone indicate some instructions on the steps needed to give it a try with python.net?

[omri374]

Perhaps using a dockerized version of Presidio and a C# client would be a better option, and would likely have less performance issues from the interop between python and C#. Is that an option?

[agonzalezm]

not really because we need to run this on embedded agent on a windows system that cant run docker linux images.

[omri374]

@agonzalezm providing an official C# package is not currently on our roadmap. We'd be happy to review community contributions on this.