Monday, May 16, 2011

Removing password/copy protection from PDF documents

If you're working with several PDF documents and each one is protected with a different password, it can be pretty annoying to always enter the passwords.

Do you need to copy something from a PDF document, but it's copy-protected?
With this few simple steps you can get rid of these problems.


The process is pretty simple, all you'll need is terminal and these two utilities: pdftops, ps2pdf.


The command pdftops -upw <password> <file>.pdf will generate postscript file from the PDF and
the command ps2pdf <file>.ps converts the postscript back to PDF, but without password and copy protection.


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