Unlock PDF

It depends which kind of lock your file has, and we check before asking. If it needs a password to open, yes -- there is no way around that, for us or for anyone, which is the point of encryption. If it opens fine but blocks printing or copying, no password exists and none is asked for.

Yes, and this is the case most tools handle badly. Those are owner restrictions rather than a password, and they can be removed without one. Other converters ask for a password that was never set, which is why people conclude the file is broken.

No. We do not attempt to guess, crack or bypass passwords, and a tool claiming otherwise for a modern AES-encrypted file is not being honest with you.

The pages, their contents and the document title and author are carried across. Interactive form fields and bookmarks are not preserved, because producing a reliably unencrypted file means rebuilding the document rather than editing it in place. If you need those, keep the original alongside.

Only remove protection from files you own or are otherwise allowed to open. Your file and password are used for the one conversion and deleted immediately afterwards.

Yes. Every tool works without paying and without an account. Files can be up to 200 pages and 80 MB, and a run that fails costs you nothing.

No. All tools work without signing in. An account raises your hourly allowance and lets you see what you have processed.

It travels over an encrypted connection into a directory created for that single request, is processed, is returned to you, and the working copy is deleted as the request finishes. We keep a record that an operation ran — never the filename or the contents.