Comments on: Remove PDF Document Restrictions

By: jye

jye — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:30:38 +0000

I downloaded this tool for a pdf file that i had rights to access but it would not retain my password info. It did not unlock the file so I uninstalled the program. Now, everytime I go to start my computer it is back and trying to run. I can only find one file for it (in my user files) and I keep deleting it but it keeps coming back. I cannot find a solution anywhere on the internet to solve this problem…BEWARE!

By: Melvin James

Melvin James — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:20:32 +0000

Great post, it’s useful to PDF users. As I know, owner password can be removed, but open password is difficult to crack. I’m using another way to remove the restrictions.
I’m using AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter, it can convert protected PDF files. And the original text content, layouts, images can be well preserved. It’s also convenient.
http://www.anypdftools.com/pdf-to-word.html#163

By: blah

blah — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:21:01 +0000

A working link to the download of the program would be helpful (DUH)

By: Reg Toye

Reg Toye — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:46:25 +0000

I have used PDF to print from Abilty Write,to print from Abillty Write no problem,

But I now find if I whish to change the name of my files or folders, I cannot,

What do I do, Thank you,

By: Remove PDF files restrictions with PDF Unlocker « DushorAkash

Remove PDF files restrictions with PDF Unlocker « DushorAkash — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:23:06 +0000

[...] PDF Unlocker is a free application that can remove the restrictions set by the creator. Simply drag the PDF file to the shortcut of application and it will automatically create a non-protected copy of the PDF file. (Thanks GHacks) [...]

By: w1re

w1re — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:19:05 +0000

Hi, is there any way to get to the program?
It seems that the website doesn’t have it any more…

maybe someone could send it to me or upload it on rapidshare or sth…

thank you

By: Reece

Reece — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:24:21 +0000

Works if you just want to remove the password or something, but this tool also removed all the text fields from the PDF so this solution did not keep the PDF functional for me. I’ll have to find something else.

By: trial

trial — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:43:48 +0000

Hey! I tried running it. It does not work :-O. It outputs a file with exactly the same restrictions!

How?

By: vivek vichar

vivek vichar — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:07:40 +0000

Wonderful pdf unlocker ! Thanks !

By: Zathrus

Zathrus — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:00:45 +0000

As best I can tell, all this is is a simple CMD script that uses GhostScript to open the PDF and then write it back out as a new PDF.

Note — v1.04 is broken. The CMD file has errors in it.

Change the CMD file to the following and it will work (for those who care, I fixed the set command to only take off “.pdf” and added the missing double quotes around the file names that should’ve been there — the script had a single, unbalanced double quote):

@echo off
echo.
echo.
echo This may take a minute, please wait.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo Converting %1
set ttt=%1
set tt=%ttt:~0,-4%
gswin32c -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sFONTPATH=%windir%/fonts;xfonts;. -sPDFPassword= -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dPassThroughJPEGImages=true -sOutputFile=”%tt%_noPW.pdf” “%1″

REM ‘Written by SMTguru

By: Kyle B

Kyle B — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:26:33 +0000

Wow. This tool was the BEST thing to happen to me today. I spent all day struggling with a stupid I9 form that the guv’ment decided to secure, thus preventing the editing/creating of Objects. My company’s software specifically requires the use of Objects on the documents so that we can populate data on these fields for our clients. I even called DHS on the phone, and got no help at all. Thanks a ton for this tool! It took about 4 seconds to fix my problem once I got it installed.

By: Mário Aragão - Desopilando » Blog Archive » Desbloqueando PDF´s

Mário Aragão - Desopilando » Blog Archive » Desbloqueando PDF´s — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:30:35 +0000

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Ecco come “sbloccare” un documento PDF - Geekissimo — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:06:08 +0000

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By: Mosey

Mosey — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:02:06 +0000

Interesting software! :D I’ll definitely bear this in mind for the future. Luckily haven’t had to edit any pdfs so far.

By: The Toybox mobile edition

The Toybox mobile edition — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:15:50 +0000

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By: Jojo

Jojo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:35:22 +0000

Be nice Martin if you could segregate the actual user comments in your posts from the linkback references like most other bloggers do. Who links back to you is of no interest to the user.

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By: NoMeDigas » Blog Archive » Elimina restricciones en documentos PDF

NoMeDigas » Blog Archive » Elimina restricciones en documentos PDF — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:47:13 +0000

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