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Unlock PDF: remove password wey you know

Remove the password from PDF when you know am, so you fit open, print and work with the file without typing am every time.

  • E dey run for our secure server
  • We dey delete am within 1 hour
  • We dey process am for London
  • Reach 25 MB for each file
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Reach 25 MB for each file · 1 file at a time for your plan

How e dey work

  1. Add your PDF

    Click Choose file or drag the protected PDF put for the page.

  2. Type the password

    Type the password wey dey open the file. This tool no fit work without am.

  3. Unlock and download

    Press Unlock and save the file, wey we go name with -unlocked for the end. E go now open without password.

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About how to unlock PDFs

Banks, payroll providers and utility companies dey often send PDFs wey get password, wey make sense when e dey travel but e dey stress you once the file don dey safe for your device. To dey type the password every time dey tire person, and you no fit use protected files with most other tools, like Merge or Compress. Unlock PDF dey remove the protection with the password wey you type, and e go give you normal copy of the file. E dey also remove print, copy and edit restrictions so you fit work with the content. This tool no dey guess, crack or recover passwords, and e no go ever do am: if you no know the password, ask the person wey send you the file. Wrong password go just bring error, and you fit try again. Only unlock files wey you get right to use, like your own statements or documents wey dem share with you. Once you unlock am, the file no get protection again, so keep am for safe place, and use Protect PDF if you need add new password before you share am.

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.

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Unlock PDF: questions wey people dey ask

Una fit unlock PDF if I don forget the password?

No. Unlock PDF dey only work with the correct password and e no dey ever try guess am. Ask the person wey send am for the password or new copy.

Why other tools dey tell me make I unlock my file first?

PDF wey need password to open, nobody fit read am without the password. Unlock am for here, then use the other tool on the copy wey you don unlock.

Unlocking dey remove printing and copying restrictions?

Yes. The unlocked copy no get password and no get any restriction.

The original file go change?

No. You go download new unlocked copy; the protected original for your device go remain as e be.