Unlock PDF
Remove a password you know
Takes the password off a PDF so it opens without one. You need the current password: this removes a password you already have, and it cannot recover or bypass one you do not.
Questions
- Are my files uploaded anywhere?
- No. Every tool on this site runs entirely inside your browser using JavaScript — your file is never uploaded to a server, because there is no server. You can confirm it by opening your browser’s network tab, or by disconnecting from the internet once the page has loaded: the tool still works.
- I do not know the password — can you get past it?
- No. This tool removes a password you supply; it does not guess, crack or bypass one. A correctly encrypted PDF cannot be opened without its password by us or by anyone else, and a tool claiming otherwise is either guessing common passwords or relying on the file being badly protected. If it is your own document and you have lost the password, the file is not recoverable.
- My PDF opens fine but will not let me print or copy — can you remove that?
- No, deliberately. Those restrictions are set by whoever made the document, and stripping them is circumventing a control someone chose to apply to their own work. Plenty of sites will do it; we would rather not. If the restriction is on a document you own, the application that produced it can change it.
- Is my password sent to you?
- No. The decryption runs as WebAssembly inside this page, so the password is used in your own browser and nowhere else. Nothing about it is transmitted, stored or logged.
- Is the unlocked file identical to the original?
- The contents are the same — same pages, same text, same images. The file is rewritten without its encryption layer, so the bytes differ and the size usually changes a little.
- Why would I remove a password?
- Usually because you need to use another tool on the document, or share it with someone through a channel where a password is more nuisance than protection. Most PDF tools, including the rest of this site, cannot read an encrypted file at all.