Remove Password from PDF - Without uploading Online or 3rd Party tools

 

Today in this article let us see how to un-protect the PDF which is password protected. I would like to give a disclaimer here that this is not magic and you cannot convert a PDF that is secured without knowing the password. Then what is the use of converting a PDF for which we already know what the password is to an unprotected one? Will it not further make our document vulnerable?

I will explain the use case where you can use this method. Sometimes we might have to upload our Payslips which is password protected to Bank to which we are requesting a loan. At the time of uploading, we will clearly see a message from the bank website that the document which you upload must not be password protected. In this case, it is our document and we know the password. But banks have automated most of their systems including the verification of documents submitted online. For those automated systems to work the document should not be password protected. Also, think from your perspective. We have our payslips password protected from our company for which we work to protect our privacy. Now when we share this password to Banks for our own loan processing will it not be a security breach?

When we have to take printouts of our Passbooks, Aadhar, etc., we need to give our passwords to the typesetter for him/her to open the document and give a print. We are going to see how we can avoid these situations.

Step 1: Download the password-protected PDF in your local (you might have in drives/mail etc.,). This is not mandatory. But this will do the trick faster.

Step 2: Right-click on the Password-protected PDF and Select "Open-with" and select "Google-Chrome"

Step 3: It will open the PDF in chrome and prompt for the password.

Step 4: Input the password which is set for the document and the document will be opened in Google Chrome

Step 5: Now click on the print icon at the top and Select Destination as "Save as PDF"

 

Step 6: Click Save and choose the destination where to save this Un-Protected file. Now try opening the file and it will not prompt for a password. You can use this unprotected PDF file to share across for your needs.

 

That's it!! – Thanks for reading. Do watch it in action in my channel "Common Man Editorial" below.

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