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Sanitize

A PDF can carry more than the pages you see: little embedded programs, other files tucked inside it, and clickable links. Most of the time that's harmless, but before you send a document out you may want it stripped down to just the document. Sanitize does that.

What it removes

  • Embedded scripts — small programs a PDF can carry and run.
  • Embedded files — other files attached inside the PDF.
  • Links — clickable web and document links.

How to do it

  1. Open the document.
  2. In the Legal tools, choose Sanitize....
  3. Click Sanitize PDF.

RaioPDF tells you what it removed.

What to know

  • It doesn't change the pages you see. Sanitize takes out the hidden extras, not the visible content.
  • Save to keep the result. The change applies to the document you have open; use Save (or Save As for a copy) to write it out.
  • If something's still open in the app, and the document changes underneath it, RaioPDF stops rather than finishing on the wrong version — and tells you.