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Read guide →Remove PDF Password
Strip the password from an encrypted PDF you have the credentials for, keeping selectable text, bookmarks, and page structure.
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Reviewed 2026-08-15
Free Remove PDF Password – how it works
This decrypts a PDF you can already open and writes out an unencrypted copy. You supply the password, qpdf decrypts the document in the page, and the result is a normal PDF that opens without a prompt.
Decryption is lossless. The page objects, fonts, embedded images, bookmarks, and text layer come through unchanged, which is the important difference from the workaround of printing to PDF or exporting page images. Those approaches produce a file where the text is no longer selectable or searchable.
You need the password. There is no cracking here, and there could not be: AES-256 without the credential is not something a browser tab is going to get through. If you are locked out of your own document, the password has to come from wherever it was set.
How to use Remove PDF Password online
- Add the encrypted PDF. Drop in the protected document. Your reader will have prompted for a password when you last opened it.
- Enter the password. Type the password that opens the file. It is used only to decrypt the document locally and is not transmitted or retained.
- Download the unlocked copy. Save the decrypted PDF. Open it once to confirm there is no password prompt and that the text is still selectable.
When to use it
- Stop retyping a password on a bank or utility statement you open every month.
- Decrypt a document so it can be merged, split, or compressed by other tools.
- Remove protection from an archived file before storing it somewhere already secured.
- Prepare an encrypted PDF for a workflow that cannot supply a password.
Known limitations
- The correct password is required. This tool decrypts, it does not crack.
- Removing the password removes the protection. Do not do it to a file that stays in a place where the encryption was the thing keeping it safe.
- Only the password and encryption are removed. Watermarks, redaction boxes drawn as content, and metadata are all still there afterwards.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to know the password?
Yes. The document is decrypted with the credential you supply. There is no way to open an AES-256 encrypted PDF without it.
Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?
No. The document is processed by WebAssembly and JavaScript running inside the page, so the bytes never leave your device. There is no upload step and nothing to delete afterwards.
Does the text stay selectable and searchable?
Yes. Decryption is lossless and leaves the document structure intact, so text, fonts, bookmarks, and links all survive. Printing to PDF as a workaround would flatten the text into pixels instead.
How is this different from the Unlock PDF tool?
They run the same decryption. Remove PDF Password is framed around a document you open with a password every day; Unlock PDF is framed around a file whose restrictions are blocking another tool. Either page will do the job.
Will the file size change?
Slightly, usually downward, because the encryption layer and its padding are gone. The page content is unchanged.
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