Remove a PDF password
If you have the password but would rather not type it every time, open the document once and save an unprotected copy. This decrypts a file you can already open — it does not break or guess passwords.
How to do it
- Open the PDF and enter its password when prompted.
- Open the password panel and turn protection off.
- Download the unprotected copy.
Why nothing is uploaded
Most online PDF tools work by sending your file to a server, editing it there, and sending it back. That means contracts, medical records, bank statements and passports all end up on someone else's machine, and you are trusting a privacy policy about what happens next.
This editor does the work in your browser instead. The PDF is read by this tab, rendered with pdf.js and written back out with pdf-lib, both running as ordinary JavaScript on your own device. There is no upload endpoint, because there is no server doing any of this. Once the page has loaded you can disconnect from the network entirely and everything still works.
Questions
- Is my file uploaded?
- No. Everything happens in this browser tab, on your own device. There is no upload endpoint and no server-side processing, so the file never leaves your machine — you can disconnect from the network after the page loads and it still works.
- Can this open a PDF whose password I do not know?
- No. It decrypts a document using the password you supply. There is no password recovery, cracking or bypass here, and there will not be.
- Does removing the password change anything else?
- No. The pages, text, annotations and form fields are untouched; only the encryption is dropped.
Related tools
- Password-protect a PDF — Add a password and set permissions on a PDF. AES-256 encryption applied in your browser — the document and the password never leave your device.
- Merge PDFs — Combine several PDFs into one, in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and there is no page limit.
- Split a PDF — Split a PDF into several files, or pull out a range of pages, entirely in your browser. No upload and no account.
- The full editor — annotate, sign, fill forms, redact, OCR and more.
Part of messy-ui. Free, open source and account-free — see also the countdown timer.