diff --git a/medkit/text/deid.py b/medkit/text/deid.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cc49e5d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/medkit/text/deid.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Iterator
+
+from medkit._import import import_optional
+from medkit.core.text import Entity, span_utils
+from medkit.core.text.operation import NEROperation
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from medkit.core.text import Segment
+
+presidio_analyzer = import_optional("presidio_analyzer", extra="deid")
+
+__all__ = ["PIIClassifier"]
+
+
+class PIIClassifier(NEROperation):
+    """Classify sensitive text information."""
+
+    def __init__(self, uid: str | None = None, name: str | None = None, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(uid=uid, name=name, **kwargs)
+        self._analyzer = presidio_analyzer.AnalyzerEngine()
+
+    def run(self, segments: list[Segment]) -> list[Entity]:
+        return [entity for segment in segments for entity in self._run_one(segment)]
+
+    def _run_one(self, segment: Segment) -> Iterator[Entity]:
+        for result in self._analyzer.analyze(text=segment.text, language="en"):
+            text, spans = span_utils.extract(
+                text=segment.text, spans=segment.spans, ranges=[(result.start, result.end)]
+            )
+            yield Entity(
+                label=result.entity_type,
+                text=text,
+                spans=spans,
+                metadata={"score": result.score},
+            )
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b13d8d5b..ff089b7a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ dependencies = [
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 deid = [
   "presidio-analyzer >=2.2.33,<3",
-  "presidio-anonymizer >=2.2.33,<3",
 ]
 edsnlp = [
   "edsnlp>=0.9",