Dangerzone: Convert potentially dangerous documents into safe PDFs

Dangerzone

Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them<br>to safe PDFs.

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🦠 Removes malware

Dangerzone destroys malware by rendering your document into pixels in a secure sandbox and reconstructing it locally as a PDF.

📝 Supports many file types

Dangerzone supports more than 20 file types, including PDFs, all major office-suite formats, and the most common image types.

🔌 Avoids network access

Documents are sanitized in a sandbox with no network access, so if a malicious document can compromise one, it can't let anyone know.

🫴 Provides a public good

Dangerzone is a free and open source project, maintained by Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), a nonprofit organization that protects and defends press freedom.

Latest article: Dangerzone 0.11.0 released

Download Dangerzone 0.11.0

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MacOS

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Windows

Download for Windows (0.10.0)<br>Version 0.11.0 coming soon

Ubuntu / Debian

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Fedora

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Tails

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Other Linux

Build from Source

Qubes OS (Beta)

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How It Works

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

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