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Decrypt a PDF you own by entering its existing password. AES-128 and AES-256 are both handled, and the result is a normal unencrypted PDF. Your existing password is required — this tool does not guess, does not crack, and does not offer to recover a password you have forgotten, because no honest tool can. The file is read and rewritten inside your browser, so a decrypted document never crosses the network. Free, no sign-up, no watermark.
To remove a PDF password free, add the file, enter its existing password, and download the decrypted PDF. Your existing password is required — nothing is guessed or cracked. The file is processed in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.
You need the password you set, and you need to know which one. Setting an open password and a permissions password from the same tool is a common habit, and the permissions password is the one people forget. Try the one you use most before assuming the file is stuck.
Encryption is one cause and a damaged file is another. If the file is truncated, the cross-reference table is broken, or the trailer is missing, no password will help and the file needs rebuilding instead. Repair PDF is the tool for that case.
Some editing operations drop the encryption because the file has to be re-written. If you decrypt, edit and then send, the document is unprotected by accident. Decrypt, edit, then re-encrypt with Encrypt PDF as a deliberate final step rather than assuming the protection survived.
Add every file, enter the password, and each is decrypted independently. A file that fails because it used a different password is reported individually, so one exception does not stop the batch.
No, and any tool claiming otherwise is either lying or doing something you would not want. Removing a password requires the password. There is no legitimate way to strip protection from a document whose owner has deliberately protected it, and no tool on this site will try.
A user password must be entered to open the document. An owner password additionally controls permissions and is what stops someone changing the restrictions. Most files have only a user password, and a file with an empty user password is not encrypted at all — it is only restricted.
Then there is no password to enter. The file opens freely and the restrictions — no printing, no copying — are what you want to remove. Unlock PDF is the tool for that, and it shows you exactly which restrictions are in place before you strip them.
AES-128 and AES-256, plus the older RC4 schemes that older tools produced. AES-256 files need the password; there is no shortcut around it.
For a document you own or are authorised to have — a file you encrypted yourself, a document belonging to your employer, a contract both parties hold — yes, routinely and in most jurisdictions without question. Removing protection from someone else's document without authorisation is a different matter and is not something to do.
No. The text, images, page structure and form fields are untouched. Only the encryption wrapper is removed. A decrypted file is byte-comparable to the original in its content streams.
Because the restrictions were never encryption — they are permission flags, and removing the password does not remove them. Use Unlock PDF to strip the restrictions, or re-save the file, which often clears stale permission state.
Free, no sign-up, no watermark, and no upload. The decryption key is derived and used entirely in this tab, and the decrypted file is never transmitted.
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