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Document Tracking

2 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/document-tracking.170396/

club_pranay
club_pranay Original post #1
Feb 19, 2013 at 10:45 PM
I am looking for ways to track word or pdf documents that I own.
Purpose: To track and have a log of users who open the .docx or .pdf files i own. For example, you are sending a sensitive document to a business partner and you want to know the time and location whenever it is accessed.

I have made a 1x1 transparent gif on my web server's public_html and installed a usage statistics tool. it keeps a detailed record of users who pull the gif.
Is there any way to embed this gif into the word or pdf document so that every time the document is opened, it pulls the image from my web server?

Thanks
gameranand
Feb 20, 2013 at 10:08 AM
Simplest way is to make a Google Doc document and only share with the respective users you wish. :)