APIs not allowed on this PDF

[tangyun]

I'm trying to render the PDF and extract all the annotations (if available) of the following PDF file.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PiEcI0bcviYecwbzwVCs2rY_0tiqfj2F/view?usp=share_link

with the following code snippet:

try {
    await viewSDKClient.ready();
    const filePromise = Promise.resolve(file.arrayBuffer);

    // Pass the filePromise and name of the file to the previewFile API
    const adobeViewerPromise = viewSDKClient.previewFileUsingFilePromise(
        `pdf-div-${file.name}`, filePromise, file.name, UploadSizedContainerConfig);

    const adobeViewer = await adobeViewerPromise;
    const annotationManager = await adobeViewer.getAnnotationManager();

    const res = await annotationManager.removeAnnotationsFromPDF();
    return Promise.resolve({
        pdfBuffer: res["pdfBuffer"],
        annotations: res["annotations"]
    });
} catch (err) {
    console.error(err);
    return Promise.resolve({});
} finally {
...
}

And I keep getting this error: 

{code: 'FAIL', message: 'APIs not allowed on this PDF.'}

Please help. thanks

[Raymond Camden]

Looking at permissions, it says that changing the document is not allowed. This would stop you from removing annotations I'd imagine as that's a change. 

[tangyun]

I see. thank you for the reply and clarification. Does it mean that unless I find a way to remove all the security restrictions either with password or by some sort of third-party tools, I will not be able to do anything with the PDF right? thanks. 

[Raymond Camden · Accepted solution]

Yes, as expected. If our Embed library blissfully ignored security that would be a bad thng. 😉