Unlock PDF

Remove the password from a PDF you own — unlock it for editing, printing, or sharing, right in your browser.

Drop a password-protected PDF here

Select your locked PDF file

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Your PDF and password never leave your device — decryption happens locally.

how to use

How to unlock a PDF

Upload your locked PDF

Drop your password-protected PDF into the tool. It's opened locally — your document and password never leave your device.

Enter the password

Type the password you use to open the PDF. The tool needs the correct password to unlock it — this only works for PDFs you own.

Unlock

The password is removed in your browser. The PDF is decrypted locally and the result is ready to download.

Download the unlocked PDF

Save the password-free PDF to your device. It can now be opened, edited, printed, and shared without a password.

about this tool

Unlock PDF without giving up your privacy

Online tools often ask you to upload your files before processing them. For anything sensitive — contracts, statements, personal documents — that's a real privacy concern. This tool takes a different route: everything runs entirely in your browser. Your files are opened locally, processed in your device's memory, and handed back to you. No copy is ever transmitted to a server, which means it works offline too.

Privacy by design. This tool loads once and runs entirely in your browser tab. Close the tab and nothing remains. No cookies, no tracking, no server — just the utility you need, instantly.

faq

Unlock PDF — frequently asked questions

No. Both your PDF and its password stay in your browser. The decryption happens locally and the unlocked file is downloaded directly — nothing is transmitted.

Yes. This tool removes password protection from PDFs you know the password for. It cannot crack or bypass passwords — that would defeat the purpose of PDF encryption.

Yes. If you know the owner password (used to restrict printing, editing, or copying), the tool can remove those restrictions as well.

The tool supports removing both user (open) passwords and owner (permissions) passwords from PDFs encrypted with standard PDF security handlers.

Yes. The only change is that the password is removed. All content — text, images, links, forms, annotations — is preserved exactly as in the original.

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