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To enable access when converting trusted source documents,
pass `external_file_access=True`.
+* The conversion may exhibit pathological performance on certain documents:
+ it's likely possible to craft a source document that causes high CPU or memory usage.
+ Depending on the performance constraints of your application and the likelihood of receiving untrusted input,
+ you may wish to consider isolating any calls to Mammoth,
+ such as running Mammoth in a separate thread with a timeout,
+ to prevent denial-of-service attacks.
+
### Document transforms
**The API for document transforms should be considered unstable,