A-PDF Restrictions Remover
Do you have a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file which cannot be printed, copied, or edited? Your PDF file has had password security and other restrictions added. Read more about PDF security »
With A-PDF Restrictions Remover, you can remove the password and restrictions in a few seconds. This program do support both user/open password and owner password, and do NOT need Adobe Acrobat software.
Current version 1.4.0
EASY to use
A-PDF Restrictions Remover is extremely easy to use. Just right click the PDF file in Windows Explorer, and in the context-sensitive menu that pops up, select either the "Remove Restrictions" or "Remove Restrictions & Save as..." option. In just a few seconds, you will have a PDF file with no restrictions. You can edit, print, copy, and more with your PDF files.
And you can quickly adjust 'settings' so that the original restricted files are preserved with a .BAK extension, and/or have them save to a different default directory.
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Can NOT do
A-PDF Restrictions Remover can work to remove the restrictions in standard password protected PDF file, it can NOT:
- Remove or find the user/open password automatically. (The product may help you to find it »)
- Remove other protections, such as DRM or third part plug-in.
- Enable Acrobat Reader to
- Save forms and data locally
- Add comments
- Add digital signatures
Command line version
Do you need remove password and restrictions of a batch of files? Do you need process files in your script? You may need the command line version.
FAQ
Can the program remove the user password?
For removing user password which you are asked for opening your PDF file, you must provide the password. The program can not find the user password automatically or simply delete it.
But you do not need input owner password, the program can delete it simply.
I can not see the options in context-sensitive menu popped up, why?
1, You must install the program using an administrator account
2, It may be caused by incorrect access control list (ACL) permissions on some registry hives. For repairing it, please use SubInACL tool of Microsoft and following the topic: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/09/04/739820.aspx
Can the program remove the Adobe DRM protection?
No. A-PDF Restrictions remover can only remove the protection of standard password with 40-bit or 128-bit RC4 encryption. It do not support Adobe DRM or other third part plug-in.
If you do not sure if it works. Please fell free to download the trial version which can be used 15 days.
What's PDF security
When you see the icon 
at the bottom left of the Acrobat/Acrobat Reader program window, it indicates that the PDF file is secured. Place your mouse cursor over that 'locked' icon, and you will see a listing of the security options that were applied to the file.
For more information about a file's security settings, you can click 'File|Document Properties' in the Acrobat/Acrobat Reader menu bar. Then selecting the Security tab will show more detail about the file restrictions.
The standard security provided by PDF consists of two different methods and two different passwords, "user password" and "owner password". A PDF document may be protected by password for opening (user password) and the document may also specify operations that should be restricted even when the document is decrypted: printing; copying text and graphics out of the document; modifying the document; and adding or modifying text notes and AcroForm fields (using owner password).
