If you have a PDF file protected by a password, you may wonder how to unlock it and remove the password protection so you don’t have to enter the password every time you want to open the file.
The PDF file protection can be easily removed by using a “Print” feature that is present in any web-browser on any operation system, incl. Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Below you will find an easy to follow step-by-step guide on how to unlock the password-protected PDF file using the web-browser’s “Print” feature.
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Remove Password From PDF
Drag and drop a password-protected PDF file into a web-browser:
Enter the password to unlock the PDF:
Click the 🖨 “Print” icon (alternately, in most web-browsers, you can go to “File” → “Print”):
Select “Save as PDF” and click on “Save”:
Choose where to save the unlocked PDF file:
Once the file is saved, the PDF password protection will be removed from it.
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If you have a bunch of pdfs to remove passwords from
I found this script useful
#!/bin/bash
# Install qpdf first obviously
# It will create a output folder with all the password removed PDF files inside
echo “Starting script…”
mkdir output
for f in *.pdf
do
echo “Processing $f”
qpdf –password=”your_password” –decrypt $f output/$f
done
echo “Completed!”