System and method for transforming an electronic file into a rights controlled and social document

An electronic document transformation and sharing system allowing a document originator control over an electronic document shared by the document originator with at least one recipient, said system comprising:

• an input device configured to receive an original electronic document and document-specific controls instructions pertaining to said original electronic document, and to assign a transaction ID pertaining to said original electronic document;
• a web server the web server comprising;
• a database on said web server, storing transaction IDs with correlating controls instructions pertaining to said original electronic document;
• a document transformation module that is in data transmission connection with (1) said input device that receives the original electronic document and (ID) the database that stores the transaction IDs with correlating controls instructions for said original electronic document, the document transformation module configured to transform said original electronic document to an encrypted transformation document and embed said transaction ID in encrypted or unencrypted form into the encrypted transformation;
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• a data transmission subsystem configured to transmitting the transformation document to at least one recipient directly or to the originator for tent transmittal to the at least one recipient, such the encn cument is not stored on the server;
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• an electronic transformation document viewer for viewing said encrypted transformation document by the at least one recipient, said document viewer configured at least for JavaScript execution and ocument rendering and being in data transmission connection with said database;
• wherein said electronic transformation document viewer is configured to transmit the encrypted transformation document to the server for decryption;
• wherein after transaction ID verification between the encrypted transformation document and the transaction ID stored in said database if said document-specific controls instructions correlating to said transaction ID are met, the web server is configured to decrypt the encrypted transformation document, and the electronic transformation document viewer is configured to make the decrypted transformation document visible;
• wherein the web server transmits back the encrypted transformation document to the document viewer as a view accessible representation of the original electronic document, that view accessible representation being an image of one page, wherein each page is transmitted independently when the viewer indicates a request to view a different page;
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• wherein the web server is configured to delete the temporarily stored decrypted transformation document after the recipient finishes viewing.