Sanitising removes active content from a PDF: scripts, embedded files, launch actions and similar. PDFs can carry executable behaviour, and stripping it is standard practice for files arriving from outside the organisation.
A PDF can contain JavaScript and embedded files that have been used as attack vectors. Sanitising removes that capability.
Text, images and layout are unaffected. Interactive form logic that depends on scripts may stop working.
Use Show JavaScript to inspect any embedded scripts before deciding.
These tools handle one document at a time. When the job is thousands of files, Greenbooks handles document digitization as a managed service, including bulk scanning, OCR and metadata capture, with the output loaded into DocuVenta DMS. Talk to us about volume work.
