Two brand-new online Tools for removing and adding a PDF Password Protection

Surely everyone knows the following situation: You have a PDF with some important information that you have not used for a long time. Years ago you decided to protect your PDF with a difficult password and now you wonder why the hell this PDF is password protected.

Now you try to open the just found PDF. In the best of all worlds, you still know the password, but there is also an obvious worst-case scenario: you simply cannot remember the PDF password. Even if you still know the password, you may think that it is still an excellent idea to remove it in order to avoid this worst-case scenario in the near future. An easy and also 100% free way to get rid of a PDF password is to use a PDF password removal service like it is offered here: https://unlock-pdf.converter.page/.

The use of this app is quite simple and straightforward. The first step is to upload the problematic, password protected PDF file.

For the scenario in which you still remember the PDF password, just choose the first option in the pop-up which shows up after submitting a PDF. Then the app asks you for the PDF password. After entering it, you will immediately receive a download link that will allow you to download the PDF without the annoying password. This will always work as long as the password you enter is correct.

In the second case, if you forget the password, the situation is a different one. The only way of removing a forgotten password is guessing it by brute force. To get started with this, simply choose the second option after the submission of your PDF. The service now begins trying many  different passwords in the background. In case the one which is protecting your PDF is not too strong, you have a really good chance of restoring it this way. The whole password recovery process can take up to 10 minutes.  When the service is done, you will receive a notification telling if the password was found or not. If successful, you can download the PDF without any password like in the first case, otherwise you will receive an error message.

Using the web-app presented above you will see that there is no magic behind the removal of annoying PDF passwords.  That way you will no longer have to worry about forgetting the PDF them in the future. Otherwise your PDF will remain completely unchanged with respect to file size and optical apearance: There is absolutely  no loss of quality after and the file will look always exactly as it was before.

In fact, there is another way to remove a known PDF password is to use your operating system’s native PDF printer you can select whenever printing such a file by selecting “Print to file”. The only problem with this option, however, is that the content of the entire file is saved as an image rather than text. That way, you lose the ability to perform a full-text search on your PDF or copy and paste text from it. This method only works if you remember the PDF password. Otherwise you will not get to the printing step.

In fact, the service presented here can also be used to protect PDF files in case if you decide to add a password to your PDF again. Simply select “Encrypt PDF” in the navigation bar, enter a password when the App is asking you to do so and you will be able to download a protected PDF. Sometimes life can be that simple.