Unlock PDF
How to remove a password from a PDF
- 01
Choose your PDF
Click “Choose a PDF” or drop the locked file on the page.
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Enter its password
Type the password you use to open the file. Files that only restrict printing or copying don’t need one.
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Unlock and download
Click Unlock. A copy without the password is saved on your device.
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Unlock PDF: questions
No. The file is unlocked by your own browser, and the password is used only on your device to open it. Neither is sent anywhere or stored.
No. If a PDF needs a password to open, you have to enter it. We don’t guess or crack passwords. Files that open without a password but block printing, copying or editing can be unlocked straight away.
The encryption, the open password and any limits on printing, copying, editing or filling in forms. Pages, text, links, bookmarks and form fields stay as they were.
All standard PDF encryption: AES-256, AES-128 and the older RC4 used by early versions of Acrobat. The file’s quality is not changed.
Unlocking your own files, or files you have been given the password for, is fine. Only remove protection from documents you have the right to use this way.