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Addition of new pdf-security-info Endpoint

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James A. Brannan
James A. Brannan
Developer Evangelist

The DynamicPDF API has an important new endpoint, the pdf-security-info endpoint, that returns a PDF's security and encryption information as a JSON document.

The pdf-security-info endpoint takes a PDF as a POST and returns a JSON document containing security and encryption information. For example, the following cURL command uploads a PDF with AES-128 security.

curl -X POST "https://api.dpdf.io/v1.0/pdf-security-info" 
-H  "accept:application/json" 
-H  "Authorization: DP.xxx-your-api-key-xxx"
-H  "Content-Type: application/pdf" 
--data-binary "@C:/temp/security/aes128-sig-out.pdf"

And returns the following JSON.

{
    "encryptionType": "aes-128-cbc",
    "hasUserPassword": true,
    "hasOwnerPassword": true,
    "allowPrint": true,
    "allowEdit": true,
    "allowCopy": true,
    "allowUpdateAnnotsAndFields": true,
    "allowFormFilling": false,
    "allowAccessibility": true,
    "allowDocumentAssembly": false,
    "allowHighResolutionPrinting": true,
    "encryptAllExceptMetadata": false,
    "encryptOnlyFileAttachments": false
}

When opened in Adobe Acrobat you can view the security information and see that it matches what was returned by the endpoint.

More Information​

For more information, refer to the pdf-security-info endpoint's documentation.

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