Secure PDF

Secure PDF

• Secure PDF module allow you to upload a PDF to your course, and prevent students from downloading it.
• Students will get an image of each page and not the PDF itself.
• The images are protected from "right click" to prevent saving the image.
• Module completion will be set only while user saw all pages of document.
• You must know that people with web development skills will be able to download the images (one by one)

Install

• Please note that you have to install a PHP module that is not needed by Moodle itself.
• Install php-imagick module on your system.
• (debian/ubuntu) apt-get install php-imagick
• (Redhat/Centos) yum install php-imagick
• Configure imagemagick to allow PDF reading, Add <policy domain="coder" rights="read" pattern="PDF"> to the policy at /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml see more details here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52703123/override-default-imagemagick-policy-xml
• Restart php-fpm or your web server.
• cd [moodle]/mod/
• git clone https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf.git securepdf
• Go to your moodle Notification Page and install.

Use

• Add securepdf module in your course.
• Add a PDF fle to the module and watch it.
• Note that first view of page will be slow (20-25 seconds), then it's will cached for other users.
• Enjoy!