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.

Getting started

The documentation lives at docs.dangerzone.rocks. Its source is under docs/ in this repository:

• Installation for macOS, Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Qubes OS, and Tails, and the supported platforms
• Tutorials to get started
• Development environment to build from source, and how to contribute
• Security policy and changelog

Preview the site locally with poetry install --with docs followed by make docs-serve.

License and Copyright

Licensed under the AGPLv3: https://opensource.org/licenses/agpl-3.0

Copyright © 2022–2024 Freedom of the Press Foundation and Dangerzone contributors
Copyright © 2020–2021 First Look Media

See also THIRD_PARTY_NOTICE.md for more information regarding the third-party software that Dangerzone depends on.