Unlock PDF
Remove the password from a document you can already open.
Drop files here
Or paste them, or pick them from this device. Nothing is uploaded: the work happens in this tab.
Files in this tab
Nothing is loaded yet.
Options
The password you use to open the document. Leave it empty for a document that opens by itself and only forbids printing or copying, or for one this application has already opened with it.
Remove the password
Add a file to get started.
What this does
This takes the password off a document you can already open, so the copy you keep stops asking for it. Drop a protected file anywhere on this site and it asks you for the password, once, and then every tool here can read it — this is for the file itself. You supply the password; it is used in this tab and never sent anywhere or kept. Nothing here breaks, guesses or recovers a password, and nothing here tries.
What it will not do
Every tool here says what it cannot do, in its own words, before you rely on it.
- Unlocking needs the password. Pagecraft cannot break, guess or recover one, and does not try.
- The password is used here, on this device, and is never sent anywhere or kept.
Questions people ask
I have forgotten the password. Can you get in?
No. This removes a password you know; it does not defeat one you do not. A tool that promised otherwise would be either lying or a cracker.
Where does my password go?
Into the decryption, in this tab, and nowhere else. It is not sent, stored or remembered between runs.
Is my file uploaded anywhere?
No. The work happens in this browser tab, on your own machine. There is no server in this product to send a file to, which is why the promise is checkable rather than something you have to take on trust: open your browser's network panel and watch it do the work without making a request.
Is there a size limit, or a limit on how many files?
None that we impose. The limit is your own machine's memory, because that is where the work happens — a few hundred megabytes is comfortable on a laptop, and less on a phone. There is no daily task counter, no queue and no account.
What does it cost, and what is the catch?
Nothing, and there is no paid tier that unlocks features: the whole product is the free one. That is affordable because running it costs us nothing — your computer does the work — so there is no per-file cost to recover, no advertising and no data to sell.