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How to remove the owner password protection from PDF

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If you get a PDF files and the PDF files prevent you from printing, editing (changing), selecting text and graphics (and copying them into the Clipboard), or adding/changing annotations and form fields. It is password protected or called encrypted.

How could you remove the owner password protection from the PDF and use it freely ?

Wondershare PDF Converter not only convert general PDF files to word, ppt, html and txt files. But also can convert encrypted PDF files which are protected from printing, editing, and copying;

You can remove the owner password protection from PDF by covnerting the protected PDF to editable word, PowerPoint, HTML or TXT files.



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NOTE: The standard security provided by PDF consists of two different methods and two different passwords. Owner Password allows to prevent PDF file from printing, editing (changing), selecting text and graphics (and copying them into the Clipboard), or adding/changing annotations and form fields; For this password protection. You can use Wondershare PDF Converter to remove this kind of password protection and convert it to other format you like.
User Password locks the file so the password is required to open or view the file. User password can NOT be decrypted by the Wondershare PDF Converter , you need to know the user password for your protected PDF and then you can convert it.

Guide: How to remove the owner password protection from PDF

Wondershare PDF Converter also can convert encrypted PDF files which are protected from printing, editing, and copying, if you have forgetten the owner password from PDF, you can also remove the password protection from PDF by convert the PDF files to other format, such as PDF to Word, PDF to HTML but retain the original layout. For the password protected PDF files from opening, you need to type the password in the pop-up dialog box, and then the PDF Converter can do the conversion work for you.

Step 1: install and start the PDF converter

Download Wondershare PDF Converter program file. Double-click the downloaded file to start installation. Follow the instructions to install Wondershare PDF Converter on your computer. And then launch the PDF converter from your computer desktop.

Remove owner password protection from PDF



Step 2: Input the PDF files and select the output files format

Input the password protected pdf from computer. Ther trial version can only covnert 3 pages from your protected PDF files. For more pages conversion, you can purchase the full version.
There are two ways to import PDF files to this program.
Click the Add Files button, browse your computer to find the PDF files, and load them.
Directly drag PDF files into the file list window.

This PDF password remover and PDF converter support the batch mode. You can import as many as 200 PDF files into this program for every batch conversion. The imported files are listed in the file list window as below.

remove the owner password protection from PDF

If you want to convert the password protected PDF to other format, such as PDF to Powerpoint, PDF to HTML, PDF to TXT, you can selet the other output target.


Step 3: Convert and remove the password protection

After all the above have set, you can now use the PDF password remover to remove the password protected. Just click the button "Convert" .

remove the owner password protection from PDF


If you just want to convert some pages of a PDF file, click the Selected Pages field and type the page numbers to be converted.




For you to convert the "User" password protected PDF, this PDF converter will give you this tips.

remove the owner password protection from PDF

Click the lock symbol or right-click the protected file and click Unlock on the shortcut menu. Type the password in the pop-up dialog box, and then the page number appears in the Total Pages field. If you do not enter the password, the page number still remains unknown, and the program will skip this file during conversion.

remove the owner password protection from PDF

Step 4: Converted

After a PDF file is converted, the file name of the exported document is displayed in the Status column. The output file is named after the PDF file. For converting PDF to HTML, the file name of the index page of the exported files is displayed in the Status column. If a PDF file is converted twice into the same folder, the program will automatically add "(1)" to the output file name. The former file will not be overwritten.



You can click the file name to open the exported document. And you can click the Open button to open the folder in which you customized to save the exported files.

Wondershare PDF Converter is a 5-in-1 PDF utility to convert protected PDF files, remove PDF password protection, convert PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Text and HTML. Then you can edit, display or publish PDF content flexibly.
1. Support Microsoft Office 2010,2007,2003
2. Empower you to convert encrypted PDF files
3. Keep original text, images, graphics, tables, hyperlinks and layout
4. Support batch and partial conversion modes
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