Unlock PDF
Unlock PDF - a browser-based pdf tools utility.
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About Unlock PDF
A document you can already open, that asks for the password every time you open it. Removing it is a convenience, and it requires the password: this decrypts with a key you supply rather than breaking anything. Both the file and the password stay with you. Unlocking is free and online, done without uploading the document, and it adds no watermark. There is nothing to sign up for and no account to make.
How to use it
- Choose the protected fileDecryption happens right here in the page, in the same way everything else on the site works.
- Enter the passwordThe one you already use to open the document. Both it and the file stay on your device — neither is transmitted.
- Save the unlocked copyThe protected original remains on your disk, still protected.
When removing protection is the right call
Encryption is worth having while a document is travelling and often a nuisance once it has arrived. A contract that has been signed and filed, a statement you keep for your own records, a report circulated internally and now archived — in each case the password protects nothing and costs you a prompt every single time. Removing it on your own copy while leaving the sent version encrypted is usually the sensible arrangement.
What it does not do
- Without the password nothing can be done. There is no recovery, no guessing and no bypass, and that is deliberate rather than a missing feature.
- Only use this on documents you are authorised to open. The Terms say so, and it is also simply the law in most places.
- Removing the password removes it for everyone who then receives the file. Think about where the unlocked copy goes next.
Questions people ask
- I have forgotten the password. Can you recover it?
- No, and no tool that is honest with you will. Guessing or bypassing encryption is not implemented here at all. A document whose password is genuinely lost stays closed — that is the entire purpose of encrypting it.
- Does the password I type reach your servers?
- It does not. Decryption runs inside the page, so what you type and the document it opens both remain on your machine, and the network panel will show you that while it works.
Questions about ToolsVerse itself — privacy, cost, what happens to your files — are answered in the frequently asked questions.
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