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Take potentially dangerous PDFs, and convert them to safe PDFs

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Dangerzone

Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.

Dangerzone works like this: You give it a document that you don't know if you can trust (for example, an email attachment). Inside of a sandbox, Dangerzone converts the document to a PDF (if it isn't already one), and then converts the PDF into raw pixel data: a huge list of RGB color values for each page. Then, outside of the sandbox, Dangerzone takes this pixel data and converts it back into a PDF.

Read more about Dangerzone in the official site.

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Getting started

Follow the instructions for each platform:

You can read more about our operating system support here.

Some features

Sandboxes don't have network access, so if a malicious document can compromise one, it can't phone home

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