Is presidio not async aware in nature?

[aashish-chaubey]

I am not sure if it is true but what I understand is that presidio is not async aware in nature and the main heavy lifting is handled in a thread, not as a true async coroutine.

Can anyone please confirm? And if there is a way to make it async-aware, how is that done?

[omri374]

Presidio isn't inherently designed to be asynchronous, but can be extended to run this way. For instance, one can use a different api from the one in app.py (e.g. fast api), or use asyncio (haven't tested this, just for illustration):

import asyncio
from presidio_analyzer import AnalyzerEngine

# Initialized once at import time
analyzer = AnalyzerEngine()

async def analyze_text_async(text):
    # Wrap the analyze method to run in a thread
    return await asyncio.to_thread(analyzer.analyze, text)