Bank statements, salary slips, and tax certificates usually arrive locked with a password. Enter the password you already use to open the file and download an unlocked copy, with the text intact. It all runs in your browser, so your file and password are never uploaded.
Remove the password from a PDF entirely in your browser: enter the password you already have and download an unlocked copy with the text intact, or strip printing and copying restrictions with no password at all. Your file and password are never uploaded.
The file stays in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Your PDF and password are processed on your device and never sent to a server.
Free, no sign-up. The unlocking runs entirely in your browser using a WebAssembly build of qpdf, so your PDF and its password never leave your device. That matters here more than anywhere: these are usually bank statements, payslips, and tax certificates, exactly the files you should not be uploading to a random site to "unlock". Enter the password you already use to open the document and you get back a normal, unlocked PDF with its text intact, not a flattened image the way printing to PDF often is. Files that open freely but block printing or copying can be cleared without a password. This removes a password you have; it cannot recover or crack one you do not. Part of techtuate, a growing collection of little tools that just work.
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Choose the PDF, and if it is protected, enter the password you use to open it. The tool returns an unlocked copy. Everything happens in your browser, so the file is never uploaded.
With this tool, yes, because the PDF and the password stay in your browser and are never sent to a server, unlike tools that upload your file to unlock it.
Yes. This removes a password you already have, the one you use to open the file. It cannot crack or recover an unknown password. PDFs that only restrict printing or copying can be unlocked without a password.
Yes. It removes the encryption while keeping the original pages and selectable text, so it is not flattened into an image the way printing to PDF often is.