I'm doing some research into solutions to convert very sensitive documents from a FHIR API into readable PDF files, and my biggest concern is HIPAA-compliance. Is any data stored using the PyPDF libraries?
Thank you so much!
Can't find any real answers on if data is exchanged during the PDF creation to a server. If anyone has any recommendations for this process as an alternative I would be forever grateful as well.
pypdf is executed locally only. It does not make any requests to other servers. It will stay like that as long as I'm the maintainer of pypdf (and I don't see anybody attempting to change that).
One fineprint: Our test suite does use PDF documents from external sources. We don't upload anything to another server, but we download files for testing. They are marked with
enable_socketand thus can be excluded viapytest -m "not enable_socket". If you don't execute the pytest tests, you don't have to think about that.