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Unlock Secure PDF
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:09 pm
by ezninnovation
One of our clients has started adding security to the pdf files and now quite hot imposing fails because it is password protected. I have the password, but what is the best way to check if the pdf is pw protected and then use the password to unprotect it.
Re: Unlock Secure PDF
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:30 pm
by Malcolm Mackenzie
You can use a Preflight to check.

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If need to you can use
https://pdfkey.com/en/
Automation Tools: Includes command-line tools to allow integration in complex workflows
and the CLI in Execute Command to unlock most PDFs.
Re: Unlock Secure PDF
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:32 pm
by JimmyHartington
You route jobs with this condition:

These files have security enabled.
Then you could use a cli tool as this
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfdecrypt/ to remove the security since you know the password.
Re: Unlock Secure PDF
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 5:13 pm
by tdeschampsBluewest
If you have the password for a PDF and need to unlock it, you can use also PDFTK along with the Execute Command app.
You can refer to the official documentation for more details :
https://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-man- ... c-owner-pw