PDF Tools Force Sensitive Document Uploads to Third Parties
Mainstream PDF editing tools require users to upload documents to remote servers even for routine operations like merging, splitting, or password-protecting files. This exposes sensitive legal, financial, and medical documents to third-party servers users cannot audit. Users in regulated industries or with confidentiality obligations have no mainstream offline alternative with full feature parity.
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