About how to protect PDFs
To protect PDF dey encrypt wetin dey inside with AES-256, the standard wey modern PDF software dey use, so the file no go open without the password. That one make am good to send payslips, medical letters or financial statements by email. The permissions dey control wetin person fit do once e don open the file: print am, copy text and pictures from am, or change am. Good PDF readers dey respect these settings, but dem no strict reach the open password, because some software dey ignore dem, so no depend on permissions alone for anything wey sensitive. Choose password wey get at least 12 characters, mix words, numbers and symbols, and send am through another channel wey no be the one for the file, like text message or phone call. Write am down: if you forget the password, we or anybody else no fit open the file for you, because Unlock PDF dey only work with the correct password. To remove the protection later, use Unlock PDF.
Limits: one PDF for each task, reach 25 MB on Free, 200 MB on Pro and 500 MB on Business, with reach 2,000 pages. Free get 10 server tasks every day.
Before you sign in, files fit reach 25 MB and you fit run 10 server tasks every day. Free account go raise am to 25 MB and 10 tasks every day.
Privacy: your file dey upload through encrypted connection go our UK servers, e dey process by itself without any person opening am, and we go delete am inside 2 hours (1 hour on Free), or sharp sharp with Delete now. We dey use your password only for this job.
How to use the PDF tools: Step-by-step help with every tool, limits and your files.
Protect PDF: questions wey people dey ask
How strong the protection be?
The file dey encrypted with AES-256. With long password wey nobody else dey use, e no go realistically open without that password.
Wetin go happen if I forget the password?
You no fit recover am. Unlock PDF need the correct password and e no dey ever guess, so write am down for safe place.
I fit stop people from printing or copying?
Yes, with the permissions. Most readers dey respect dem, but some software no dey, so the open password na the stronger protection.
How I suppose share the password?
Through another channel wey no be the one for the file, like text message or phone call, never inside the same email.