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Remove PDF password

Take the password off a PDF you know the password for. Free on WholeFiles, with no sign-up, no watermark and no daily limit.

Runs on our server. Your file is deleted within 10 minutes.Last reviewed 22 September 2026

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This tool runs on our server. Your file is sent over an encrypted connection and deleted within 10 minutes.

Questions

I do not know the password. Can you remove it?
No. Without the password the file cannot be decrypted, here or anywhere else that is honest about it.
My file opens without a password but will not let me copy or print.
That is an owner password with restrictions. Leave the password box empty and run the tool; the restrictions are removed.
Does the content change?
No. Only the encryption is removed.
Where does my file go?
To the WholeFiles server, once, over an encrypted connection; then it is deleted within 10 minutes. The password is not stored.

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