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Unlock PDF – Remove PDF Password & Restrictions

Remove password and restrictions from PDF files you own so you can edit, print and copy. Free online unlocker.

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Private and short-lived: every upload is erased automatically 72 hours after you last open it.

Step by step

Unlock a PDF: step by step

Remove password and restrictions from PDF files you own so you can edit, print and copy. Free online unlocker.

  1. 1

    Upload the locked PDF

    Drop in the protected file — the password card appears before anything else, naming the file it belongs to.

    The Owner password for pt-out.pdf card — Provide the document owner password to enable all permissions — with the password box and a greyed-out Continue button
  2. 2

    Enter the owner password

    That is the password whoever created the file set — the one that controls printing, copying and editing. Type it in; the eye button shows what you typed, and Continue lights up.

    The same owner-password card with the password typed in and the Continue button now active
  3. 3

    Unlock & download

    Press Unlock PDF and the ready page hands back the free file. In our test the output opened with no password at all, keeping all four pages, images and text as they were.

    The ready page showing the unlocked pt-out.pdf — 4.2 KB · 4 pages · deleted automatically after two hours — above the Download button
  • Restrictions cleared

    The password and the print, copy and edit flags all come off in one run.

  • Owner password

    The card asks once for the password whoever created the file set.

  • Peek while typing

    The eye button reveals the password so long ones can be checked.

  • Yours to open

    Made for files you own — knowing the password is the proof.

  • Page-for-page

    Pages, images and text come back exactly as they were.

  • Private by default

    No account, no watermark — and every file is automatically deleted after 2 hours.

More tool information

What the other tools do

Redact

Removes content for good rather than covering it: anything under a redaction mark is destroyed in the saved file, not hidden behind a black box. Smart detection finds cards, emails, phone numbers, IDs, IBANs and labelled names for review before you commit.

Protect

Locks a PDF with a password and a permission set: printing, copying, editing, commenting, form filling and page operations can each be allowed or refused, and a separate owner password controls those permissions.

Edit Metadata

Edits the document properties a reader sees in their PDF viewer: title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer, creation and modification dates, plus custom fields.

Alternate & Mix

Interleaves the pages of two or more documents instead of stacking them one after the other. It is the tool for a duplex scan made on a single-sided scanner, where the fronts and the backs come away as two files with the second one in reverse.

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