Remove Security Protections from Adobe PDF
Remove Security from Adobe If you can open and read it, but you just want to be able to extract pages and edit the document. use ghostscript Uses ghostscript... gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=unencrypted.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f encrypted.pdf Just a tip Use PDFCPU from github https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu If you try to print to a PDF you will see this error: ProductName: Distiller This PostScript file was created from an encrypted PDF file. Redistilling encrypted PDF is not permitted. Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. Good Luck, guys!