When to unlock a PDF
Banks, payroll services and phone companies often send statements protected with a password such as your date of birth. Once a statement is safely on your own device, a copy without the password is easier to file, search, print, merge with other documents or share with your accountant.
What you need
You need the password that opens the file, or its permissions password. If the PDF opens without a password but blocks printing or copying, the tool tells you and removes those limits. There is no way to recover a password you have lost, and this tool will not try to guess one.
Privacy
The file is decrypted in your browser. Your PDF and its password are never uploaded or stored, and the unlocked copy is saved straight to your device. Keep it somewhere private, because it no longer asks for a password.