Remove the password from a PDF you can already open
Your bank statement arrives encrypted and asks for your date of birth every single time you open it. Type the password once here and get back a copy that does not ask. The statement never leaves your machine, which matters for this one more than any other tool on the site.
- Needs
- The password. This does not break encryption
- Output
- The same pages, no password, rasterised at 200 DPI
- Where it runs
- Your browser. The document and the password stay local
- Kept
- Nothing. There is no server in this flow at all
How to use it
- Drop in the locked PDF.
- Type the password you already use to open it.
- The pages are decrypted and rebuilt into a fresh PDF with no encryption on it.
- Download the unlocked copy.
Questions
Can this open a PDF whose password I do not know?
No, and that is deliberate. It decrypts with the password you supply, which is the legitimate case: your own documents that you are tired of unlocking by hand.
Is the text still selectable afterwards?
No. To strip the encryption in the browser the pages are re-rendered at 200 DPI and rebuilt as images inside a new PDF. It looks and prints the same, and it is no longer searchable. That is the honest limitation of doing this without a server, and for a bank statement you are filing or emailing it rarely matters.
Why does keeping it local matter so much here?
Because the files people want unlocked are payslips, statements and policy documents, and the ordinary way to do this online is to hand a stranger both the document and its password. Here they go no further than this tab.
What about a PDF that only restricts printing?
Those carry an owner password with no user password, so they open with an empty password. Leave the field blank and press unlock.
Next door
heic to jpg, compress pdf to a size, remove background, passport photo.