I assume they mean "upload to drive and use the web based reader to view the PDF," not "upload to drive and download it again"
Obviously you can't. You assume it's best in class based on various factors including the fact that this is the same juggernaut that runs project zero. They also somehow manage to secure their cloud offering against malicious clients so presumably they can manage to parse a pdf to an image without getting pwned.
It would certainly be interesting to know what their internal countermeasures are but I don't know if that's publicized or not.