PDF Password Recovery Methods
Posted on October 28, 2008
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PDF files are a fantastic was to store computer documents. They can be opened on near enough any computer and the file will look the same as it was originally intended. All sorts of computers: Windows, Linux, Mac, even PDAs and mobile phones.
You can also make your PDFs more secure by putting a password on them. Before the PDF can be opened, the person who wants to read the file needs to enter a password.
Which is all well and good until you need to open a password protected PDF file but you’ve put the password somewhere “safe”. Maybe the email is at home and you can’t access that PC from wherever you are. Or maybe the email with the password has been deleted. Or you thought “I’ll always remember that password” and never wrote it down. It could be the PDF was protected by someone who no longer works for your company.
The other products that get protected by passwords are ebooks that you’ve just bought. For whatever reason, the product’s owner is paranoid and thinks that every customer has the ulterior motive of stealing their product. Personally I think that treating customers like thieves will make them more open to sharing files. After that, I re-name the PDF file so that it includes the password. That way it’s easy to find the password and I don’t have to hunt through all my emails to find it. I haven’t always done this and some files have had to stay locked.
Whatever the reason for the lost PDF password, it means you can’t quickly get into the PDF to read it.
There are several ways to get around this problem.
You can simply ignore the file in the hope that your failure to open it won’t matter.
If you’ve got time on your hands, you can start to enter all your “favorite” password combinations. Usually in the vain hope that you’ll quickly find the password you used to protect the file.
You can download an inexpensive PDF password recovery program that will do all the hard work for you and will retrieve the PDF password you’ve lost in just a few minutes.
Discover one of the best PDF password recovery programs I’ve found.
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