PDF DRM, Security, Protection and
Distribution Management technologies are used as a copyright
enforcement mechanism and sometimes as an alternative mechanism to
copyright law.
Granting exclusive ownership rights
to authors and creators through Copyrights, Security and DRM, allows
for a better chance of enrichment of more and more creative and
cultural products, and they can nominally compensate their efforts
and costs.
Intellectual efforts for producing
a product or artifact must be appropriately prizes, and we must
prevent people to benefit from such products free of charge. PDF
Security and DRM provide a better base for protecting contents
against illegal distributions, usages and sells.
PDF Security and
Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems are provided to ease
distribution of PDF documents for end users by enforcing some usage
and distribution limitations like printing, copying, save, transfer
and...
Description
PDF Security
OwnerGuard is the ultimate
Security, DRM, Copy Protection, Licensing,
Watermarking and
Distribution Management solution for Adobe PDF Documents.
This product is made specially for the internal company document
security and publishers of high value information published in
PDF format.
Protect and Lock your PDF documents to specific User, Computer or
USB Drive.
Define High Security Expiration Date or Working Duration for your drm
protected pdf documents.
Stop your valuable PDF documents from being shared and distributed
across the Internet.
Allow users to use full features of Adobe Reader to access your drm protected pdf
documents.
Define Print and/or View watermarks for your protected pdf document
users.
Minimize your users DRM hassles by letting them access your secure
pdf documents
offline.
Distribute and Sell your
secure PDF documents easily.
Gain full control over your sensitive documents usage rights.
Feel free to Store, transfer and share your protected contents using
your desired method and media just like before.
Features
Advanced
512 bit unique encryption
system for DRM protected PDF Documents.
Support
a wide range of
limitations including
Machine-Dependency,
Working Duration,
Expiration Date,
Print Watermarking,
Printing,
Clipboard,
Modification,
Screen-Capture and ....
Extremely easy to implement and use
licensing
system for
DRM protected PDF Documents distribution
over local networks or internet.
Note :
Client-side (License Manager) is provided as a part of
Advanced, Enterprise and Server Packages and can be
distributed to unlimited number of end-users.
You can
request a
licensing demonstration about
PDF Security
OwnerGuard packages using our
request form.
Step 1:
Start
This wizard is a step by step guide on using OwnerGuard Protection,
Licensing and Distribution features.
In each step, you can see a complete video demonstration.
Step 2:
Create Projects
Before you can protect your pdf documents, you must define projects.
Project names are used to group DRM protected pdf documents.
DRM Protected files in the same project, are protected with the same method
and they can be accessed using the same license.
Users must have separate licenses to access DRM Protected Files in each
project .
Step 3:
Protect Your PDF Documents
Required Encryption Key for protection is generated using Your Computer
Signatures and Project Name.
Your pdf documents are fully encrypted and nothing else will be stored in drm protected
pdf documents like containers, headers or ...
DRM
Protected pdf documents and source documents are exactly the same size.
Different users may have different rights accessing the same protected
file based on their licenses.
Step 4:
Distribute Protected PDF Documents
DRM
Protected PDF documents can be distributed/shared by using:
Network Shared Storage or File Servers
Email Attachments
Website Downloads
Data storage devices (HDD, USB Disks, CDs, DVDs, ...)
P2P File Sharing Systems
Step 5:
User License Manager
License Manager is the user-side version of OwnerGuard DRM Systems. In order
to Minimize users DRM hassles, OwnerGuard provides tiny DRM Manager for
users in order to add owners generated licenses and access drm protected
pdf documents.
Users need to run License Manager just for adding new Licenses.
After Adding license codes, users are able to access the drm protected pdf
documents with predefined limitations.
Using protected pdf
documents
are just like normal pdf documents.
Step 6:
Create Licenses For Users
As an owner, you can give licenses to other users to access your drm protected
pdf drm documents or also be a reseller of your pdf documents. Protected
pdf documents are the same
for all users. Limitations are defined in each license, so it makes
different user privileges.
You can define any limitation for your licenses including Working Time,
Expiration Date, Printing, Save.
You can generate Computer-Dependent or USB-Dependent licenses to lock your
protected files to specific Computer or USB Drive.
Any new outputs or modified files from your protected files will be also
protected (encrypted) automatically just like the initial protected
file.
Step 6-1:
Manual Licensing
In this method, Owner must generate licenses for each user manually. This
method is suitable for a limited number of users.
Manual licensing is available in Advanced Editions.
Step 6-2:
Batch Licensing
In this method, Owner can generate and send required licenses for all
users automatically with just a single click. This
method is suitable for a large number of users.
Batch licensing is available in Enterprise Editions.
Step 6-3:
Automatic Licensing
In this method, License generation and user limitation/privileges
management can be
completely automated using license server or any other custom build
applications.
Automatic licensing is available in Enterprise Server packages.
You can integrate your current systems with OwnerGuard
Licensing/Protection features using OwnerGuard APIs.
Step 7 :
Using Licenses
Before accessing drm protected pdf documents, users need to get appropriate licenses
from the owner(s) and add them in their system using License Manager.
Users need to run License Manager just for adding new Licenses.
After adding the license, users will be able to access the drm protected
pdf documents with predefined limitations.
After adding the license, using protected pdf files are just like normal
pdf documents with all features of the Adobe Reader and pdf file format
preserved.
Step 7-1:
License Files
Owners are able to store their licenses in License files, so that users
can add multiple licenses with a single click.
Single License file may contain multiple licenses from different projects
and different owners.
User will add License files with just a single click.
Step 7-2:
License Codes
Owners can generate and distribute their licenses in the form of License
Codes.
License codes are easy to generate and distribute in web based systems.
License codes can be transferred using any communication system (phone, paper,
fax,
mail or ...)
Step 8:
Using DRM Protected PDF Documents
After adding the required licenses, using protected files are just like
normal files. Users do not need to run any additional application to
access protected files.