Document Detective

Introduction
ManTech’s Document Detective is a collection of desktop applications designed to redact, sanitize, and
review popular electronic document formats like Microsoft Office and Adobe Portable Document Format
(PDF). It meets the U.S. Government’s rigorous security requirements for a “100 percent Reliable Human
Review” for protecting National Security Information that could be compromised by hidden data in
electronic documents. Document Detective is critical for business and commercial applications where the
protection of proprietary information and a client’s private and personal data is of paramount importance.

Document Detective currently works on the following file types:

Analysis and Flattening (remove hidden data / deep object inspection)
• Microsoft Word documents and templates
• Microsoft Excel documents and templates
• Microsoft PowerPoint documents and templates
• Rich Text Files (Microsoft Word 2.0)

Keyword Search
• Text files (TXT, CSV, ASC, etc.)
• Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)
• Image (JPEG)
• Audio (MP3)
• Binary file types

Document Detective detects over 100 hidden data types, including:

• Ad Hoc Review (automatically enables Tracked Changes without warning) when documents are emailed
• Tracked Changes (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
• Document fragments caused by Fast Save
• Macros and Scripts
• Embedded OLE objects and media files
• Paste and Paste Special security problems
• 12 font formats that obscure text in Word
• Cropped and resized images
• Overlapping and off-page objects
• Metadata (document properties)
• Malicious OLE streams
• Deleted text and images in Adobe PDF