Requires enginePDF & documents
Unlock PDF
Remove a password from a PDF you have the right to open.
Requires engine
Unlock PDFUnlock PDF is fully built. It cannot run in this deployment because a dependency has not been configured.
- What it needs
- A PDF encryption library
- Why it is not on yet
- The bundled PDF library reads and writes documents but cannot apply or remove standard PDF encryption. This needs qpdf compiled to WASM, or a server-side qpdf worker.
What you can do right now
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About Unlock PDF
- What does Unlock PDF do?
- Remove a password from a PDF you have the right to open.
- Who is it for?
- Students handing in work, professionals sending contracts and reports, administrators preparing submissions, and anyone who has hit an email attachment limit. No technical knowledge is needed.
- Is it free?
- It will be free to use. Unlock PDF is not available yet — see the panel above for what it is waiting on.
- Is it safe to use with confidential files?
- Yes, and not because we promise to behave. Unlock PDF never sends your file anywhere — the work happens in your browser. There is no upload, so there is no copy of your document in our systems at any point.
- What file formats are supported?
- Input: PDF. Output: PDF.
- Will this open a PDF I do not have the password for?
- No. It removes protection from a file you can already open, which is the legitimate case — a document you own with a password you know but no longer want to type. It is not a password cracker and will not be built as one.