Unlock PDF

Add the PDF in the box above, type its password and click Unlock PDF. You download a copy that opens without asking for a password. It's free, with no watermark and no sign-up.

It depends on the lock. If the PDF opens normally but blocks printing, copying or editing, yes: no password is needed and those restrictions are removed. If the PDF asks for a password to open and you've forgotten it, no: we never crack or guess passwords. Ask the sender for the password or an unprotected copy.

Add the PDF. When it opens without a password and only its permissions are restricted, it's marked accordingly and nothing needs to be typed; click Unlock PDF and the copy you download can be printed, copied from and edited. To change the text afterwards, open it in Editly.

Add the statement and type the password your bank uses for it; banks usually explain it in the email that came with the statement, often a combination of your name, date of birth or customer number. The unlocked copy opens directly, so store it carefully and don't forward it unprotected.

The e-Aadhaar password is the first four letters of your name as printed on the card, in capital letters, followed by your year of birth, for example SURE1990. Enter it here to save a copy that opens without the password.

Open this page in Safari or Chrome, add the PDF, enter the password if it has one and unlock it. No app is needed; the unlocked PDF is saved to your downloads.

With a free account you can unlock up to 3 PDFs at once (80 MB each, 120 MB in total). Use one shared password for all of them, or give each file its own. The unlocked files download together in one ZIP.

No. Only the encryption is removed. Pages, text, fonts, images, links, bookmarks and form fields stay exactly as they were.

You can, but removing the protection rewrites the file, so an existing digital signature will no longer validate. Keep the original signed file as your proof and use the unlocked copy for reading, printing or editing.

Make sure you opened the downloaded file, which ends in -unlocked.pdf, and not the original. The original file always keeps its password.

Unlocking your own documents, or ones you've been given the password for, is normal. Use the tool only on files you have the right to open and change. It never breaks a password it doesn't know.

Send it straight to Editly to edit the text, to PDF to Word to work on it in Word, or to Compress PDF to make it smaller, without uploading it again.

Use Protect PDF. It encrypts the file with a password of your choice and can also block printing, copying and editing.

Yes. The password is sent over an encrypted HTTPS connection, used only to unlock that file and deleted right after. Files are deleted automatically within one hour. In Browser mode, unlocking happens on your own device and neither the file nor the password is uploaded.