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Take the password off a PDF
Typing a password every single time you open your own statement gets old. If you can open the file, you can save a copy without the lock.
Open the toolRuns on our server — the file is uploaded, processed and sent back.
How it works
- Add the PDF and its passwordYou need the password. This does not break into files.
- Unlock itThe lock is removed from the copy.
- DownloadSave the open file.
Questions
Yes — this one runs on a server, so the file is sent over the network and processed there. If you would rather nothing left your device, use the browser tools on the main page instead.
Neither. No account, no watermark on the output. The practical limit is your device memory — large scanned files use more of it.
Guide: removing a password well
When you'd use this
A bank or utility sends statements as password-protected PDFs, often locked with something predictable like your date of birth or the last digits of an account number. Typing that password every single time a statement is opened over months or years is a small but real annoyance, and once a document is safely stored in a personal, already-secured location — a private computer, an encrypted drive — the extra lock may no longer be doing useful work. This creates an unlocked copy so the file opens directly from then on.
How it works
You need the password already — type it in alongside the file, and the server uses it to open the PDF and save a new copy without the encryption. This is not a password recovery or cracking tool: without the correct password, it cannot open or unlock the file, by design. If the password is genuinely unknown, this tool will not help; that is intentional, since a tool that could strip unknown passwords would be exactly as useful to someone else's files as to your own.
After removing it
The unlocked copy opens without any password at all — anyone with the file can read it. Consider where that copy ends up: an unlocked file sitting in a shared folder or sent by email loses the protection the original had. If the password existed for a real reason (sensitive financial detail, personal information), keep the unlocked copy somewhere at least as controlled as wherever you were planning to use it.
More questions
No. It removes a password you provide; it does not guess, brute-force, or bypass an unknown one.
Unlock it first, then use Repair a broken PDF if it still won't open correctly afterward.
Yes — once the file is decrypted and re-saved, any permission restrictions tied to the old encryption go with it.
It is used only to open the file on the server for this one operation and is not stored afterward.