PDF Password Remover
Many DigiLocker downloads, bank statement exports, and other government or financial PDFs come password-protected or with printing/editing disabled. When you already know the password (this is your own document, not someone else's) and just want to remove that friction before uploading it somewhere or sharing it, this tool does that entirely in your browser. This is not a password-cracking tool — it cannot guess, brute-force, or bypass a password you don't already have; you must enter the correct password yourself for it to work on a genuinely open-password-protected file.
There are two different cases this tool handles, and they behave differently — see the in-tool explanation below before you rely on the result.
This tool is for PDFs YOU already have the password to — it is not a password-cracking tool and cannot brute-force or guess a password.
Read before using: what this can and can't actually do
Permission-restricted PDFs (no password needed to open, but printing/copying/editing is disabled) — this genuinely removes those restrictions by rebuilding the PDF fresh, with its original vector text and images intact.
PDFs that require a password just to open — pdf-lib (the library used elsewhere on this site) cannot decrypt these at all. For this case, we use a real PDF-decryption engine (pdfjs, the engine behind Firefox's PDF viewer) with the password you provide, then rebuild the PDF from rendered page images. This DOES remove the password, but the result is image-based: larger file size, and text is no longer selectable or searchable. If you see this happen and it's not what you need, that's an inherent limitation of doing this fully client-side without the original password-free source file.
Why the result sometimes becomes an image-based PDF
If your PDF only has printing/copying/editing restrictions but doesn't require a password to open at all, this tool genuinely rebuilds it with those restrictions removed, keeping your original text and images fully intact and selectable — no quality loss.
If your PDF requires a password just to open it, the situation is different: the library used for every other PDF tool on this site (pdf-lib) cannot decrypt real password-protected content at all — it has no capability to read an encrypted PDF even with the correct password. To still remove the password in this case, this tool uses a genuine PDF-decryption engine (pdf.js, the same engine behind Firefox's built-in PDF viewer) with the password you provide, renders each page as an image, and rebuilds a new, password-free PDF from those rendered images. This does remove the password, but at a real cost: the resulting PDF is image-based, meaning it's typically larger than the original and its text is no longer selectable or searchable. This is an inherent limitation of removing a real open-password fully client-side, not a bug — the tool tells you which path was used after processing.