Blog Articles - information security

If you work in government, legal, healthcare, or any enterprise environment where documents move across organizational boundaries, you already know the problem. PDFs hold more than the content you see on the page. They include metadata, embedded scripts, hidden layers, form data, and markup annotations, and every one of those elements is a potential compliance risk, especially for highly regulated industries.

Summary: Protecting your documents with watermarks can be a tedious task, but also a necessary one. From choosing the type to implement, to the method, and to the goal of the watermark, there’s lots to decide. This blog looks at the types of watermarks and when to use them. It also covers how to programmatically add watermarks to a PDF using one of two methods from Apryse: the server-side Stamper class for backend/batch watermarking and the client-side Overlay method.