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I would like to use the Adobe Embed API to display PDF in an enterprise internal application. But I'm wondering if the PDF itself is sent to the Adobe servers? Since the documents are strictly confidential, that would forbid me to use this API.

LaurentG
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  • If you are working with strictly confidential documents I suggest you get your Cyber Security team to work it out. Looking at this https://www.adobe.io/apis/documentcloud/dcsdk/pdf-embed.html, it's a link, it's not actually embedded. There is absolutely no security around this. Anyone can get the client id and look at your PDF – Nick.Mc Jun 02 '21 at 06:37

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Adobe PDF Embed API does not upload your PDF document to Adobe servers. There is a whitepaper here that details that: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/security/pdfs/AdobeDocumentServices_SecurityOverview.pdf

Here is an excerpt:

API Authentication PDF Embed API is a client-side JavaScript- and WASM-based library and does not make any calls to cloud-based services. There are only three purposes for which it makes network calls:

  1. At the time of loading, it calls into a service that validates the client.
  2. If given an Adobe Analytics report suite ID by the PDF Embed API integrator, it logs event data for out-of-the-box analytics and a pre-configured analytics dashboard.
  3. It logs anonymous usage data in Adobe Analytics.
Ben Vanderberg
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