PDF File Password Forgot How to Open It?

 PDF is one of the most popularly used format for sending and receiving files on the internet. Adobe Acrobat has the feature password protected encryption built directly into the format , which makes PDF file protection easy to do and difficult to be viewed or edited by anyone the than you using the file. Nowadays the most of the financial statements are password protected PDF files. If you forgot a password, how can you retrieve forgotten  PDF file password  and enter the file again?

First of all, it's necessary to understand how PDF encrypts internally, in fact, there are two types of password used in PDF, one is Open Password and the other is user password.

Open Password: As the name suggests, it's used to open your entire PDF document, It's the first key to access to your PDF file. If you forgot PDF open password, in other words, you lost the permission to open and review the content of PDF, not to mention printing, editing or copying.

User Password: This type of password can be able to protect your PDF from unwilling copying, print or editing. If there is a user password placed in PDF file, then viewer can only read it but can't change anything.

How to Open a PDF files if you forgot PDF Password 

1. Open a Password Protected PDF with Dr.PDF software on your computer.

    iSeePasswordDr.PDF is a professional PDF format password recovery tool that can easily remove PDF password lock so you can copy, edit or print content.

Step 1. Download and install the Dr. PDF software on your computer which contains the PDF file you are so aspiring to open. 

Step 2. The next page that follows click on ADD file button to choose the right password protected PDF file. 

Step 3. After you adding the PDF file, you need to select a suitable attack type to begin. You can see three attack type. Dictionary attack, Brute-force with mask attack and Brute force. 

Step 4. Fill up the parameters under the selected attack and click on Start button. The file password will be recovered in a short while.

2. Retrieve It with Chrome.

    You can also use the Google Chrome Browser to remove the PDF encryption as well. So if you forgot  PDF document password, Google Chrome will be an excellent way to remove it.

• Drag and drop the locked PDF file to Google Chrome.
• You will be asked for the password, type it.
• Then click on the save as

Then, a popup will appear check box that says "Save as PDF" and then click Save again.

3. Remove PDF Security 

    The easiest way to unlock PDF file for editing or printing should be getting edit password from PDF file owner and remove PDF security. 

• First open encrypted PDF file with recovered password.

• Click Protection > Remove Security in the top menu

• Type permissions password in pop up dialog box and and click OK to unlock PDF file encrypted with open and permissions password  and save PDF file.

If you cannot get permissions password from PDF file owner, the above would not work.