Tools / Unlock PDF
Unlock PDF
Take the password off a PDF you can already open.
- This tool has no upload step
- This browser-only engine does not send your file
- Every tool driven in a browser each release
Choose a PDF
or drop it here
How it works
- Add the PDF.
- Type the password it opens with.
- Remove the password, then download the copy that opens without one.
Removing a password you already know
A statement that asks for a password every time it opens is tedious to live with, and there is no reason to keep it once the file is somewhere safe.
You need the password
This removes a password using the password. It is not a way into a file you cannot open.
Bank statements usually use a rule, not a random password
Date of birth, part of an account number, a postcode. If you cannot remember, the bank states the rule.
Keep the locked original until you have checked the copy
Confirm the unlocked file opens and holds every page before you delete anything.
Think about where the unlocked copy lives
The password was doing something. An unlocked statement in a shared downloads folder is readable by anyone at that machine.
Where this is the wrong tool. If you do not have the password, this tool cannot help and neither can any honest one. Nothing here attempts to guess or break encryption.
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Questions
Can this open a PDF if I do not know the password?
No. This is not a password cracker and it will not become one. It decrypts the file using the password you type, which is exactly what your PDF reader does when you open it. Without the password it cannot help, and no honest tool can.
Does my password get sent anywhere?
No. It stays in this page. The decryption happens in your browser, and there is no server here that could receive either the file or the password.
My PDF opens fine but will not let me print. Can you fix that?
Yes. That is a permissions flag rather than a password, and this clears it. Add the file, leave the password box empty, and take the copy that comes back.
Is removing a password from my own file legal?
Removing protection from a document you are entitled to read is ordinary. Doing it to somebody else's document is not, and this tool cannot do that anyway, because it needs the password.
Does the unlocked copy lose anything?
No. The pages, the text and the structure come through unchanged. Only the encryption and the restriction flags are gone.
Does this change my original file?
No. Nothing on your device is modified. A new copy is written and handed to you.
Does it work without a connection?
Opening the page needs one, and so does the first file you unlock, because that is when this site hands over the engine. The work itself uses no network.