How Document Processing Works
A look under the hood at our security boundaries, isolated worker queues, and automated retention lifecycles.
Secure Upload & Sanitization
When you select or drop a file, DocumentForge generates a randomized, unguessable internal UUID. File headers and magic bytes are inspected to prevent arbitrary execution, and filenames are thoroughly sanitized against directory traversal attacks.
Decoupled Worker Processing
The job is dispatched to our worker queue. Dedicated worker processes run in isolated temporary processing workspaces using specialized Python and Node.js engines (PyMuPDF, pdfplumber, Pillow, and pdf-lib). No web browser memory is exhausted during complex tasks.
Verified Artifact Storage
Once processing completes, the output artifact is verified for structural integrity. The job state transitions to COMPLETED, and an isolated download route with strictly typed MIME and Content-Disposition headers is prepared.
Automated 1-Hour Purge
Privacy is our architectural default. Every input file and output artifact is assigned a strict 1-hour time-to-live. A recurring retention cleanup process permanently wipes all associated bytes from disk.