PDF and Most of the MS Office files now comes with feature that you can give them password and lock them so that noone can open without your permission. Also there are features that you can make them read only so no one can copy or edit it. But many a times happen hat you give so many passwords to various files that you end up forgetting your own password and ultimately you yourself can not open or edit file.
There are many password recovery softwares are available which you can use. Using this password recovery tool for recovering password for someone else’s file is illegal but if you are recovering your own password than its legal and its your right as well.
But all these recovery tools will cost you some bucks and if you are getiing free than there can be some trojan or virus inbuilt that will cost you latter on. So is there any solution to recover password from these files without installing any software?
The answer is yes!!!
Free PDF Unlock Online Utility (Beta) is an free online tool which you can use to recover password from PDF files. To use the utility follow following steps:
- Go to “http://www.ensode.net/pdf-crack.jsf”
- Accept terms and condition by checking box.
- Browse PDF file you want to recover password.
- Press submit.

And you will get unlocked PDF file in second window opening with Adobe application.
There is another utility which is very simple to use (drag and drop feature) and will remove the password instead of revealing it. To use this tool click here. But this tool requires you to download the file to your computer. File name: PDF_Unlocker.zip
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