Debian actually goes out of their way to patch those checks out in their PDF-related packages as part of their stance against DRM, like this example with "pdftk

Debian actually goes out of their way to patch those checks out in their PDF-related packages as part of their stance against DRM, like this example with "pdftk": https://sources.debian.org/patches/pdftk/2.02-4/drm_fix/ https://sources.debian.org/patches/pdftk/2.02-4/drm_fix/