DocumentFormatInstance class

Represents a specific format of a document. Implement this class to add your own document types.

The DocumentFormatInstance type exposes the following members:

Property	Description
password	Gets or sets a password for password protected documents.

Method	Description
`initialize(self, config, settings)`	Performs initialization of the instance of document format handler.
`load(self, input)`	Loads the document from a stream.
`save(self, output)`	Saves the document to a stream.
`is_redaction_accepted(self, description)`	Checks for `IRedactionCallback` implementation and invokes it, if specified.
`perform_binary_check(self, input)`	Checks if the given stream contains a document, supported by this format instance.

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The following example demonstrates how to create an empty stub for a custom format handler.

The following example demonstrates how to use the initialization data.