Removing password protection from PDF documents

There is a wide variety of security option in PDF documents that are only accessible after entering a password. This can be a problem for authors when the passwords are no longer known. The pdf-Recover Professional software package from the UNIVERSE software house based in Neuss, Germany can get you out of this difficult situation; pdf-Recover Professional 3.6 has the functionality to decrypt the safety settings in the current version of Adobe Acrobat 7 and Form Designer.

When creating a PDF file, all of the security settings in a document can be made using a main password. This enables the user to decide whether the content can be edited or printed, or whether form fields can be filled out or text can be copied. But what if you no longer have that password? In the worst case, the document is rendered unusable, and the effort taken in its creation has gone to waste. A solution to this problem can be found in pdf-Recover Professional, which can remove the PDF document’s main password at the click of a button – Version 3.6 can also remove passwords in documents created using Adobe Acrobat 7 and Form Designer 7.

That is not all. The decrypted document can not only be encrypted again with your own passwords; you can also add titles, search phrases, author information and so on to the document. The software can define all of the presentation characteristics of the document – giving you almost the same power as a PowerPoint presentation when using PDF documents in Adobe Reader, if needed. You can set presentation dimensions and display or hide toolbars and menu bars in Acrobat Reader, set the full-screen mode or the position on the display screen.

The pdf-Recover Professional software package not only provides a fast way of solving password problems, but a wide range of functionality for professional document management.

Even documents encrypted using 128-bit algorithms can be decrypted using pdf-Recover Professional, and is compatible with Win 9x and later Windows versions, Mac OSX and Linux.

The product is available for €35 plus VAT. A free test version is available for download at www.pdf-office.com.

About UNIVERSE Software:

UNIVERSE Software GmbH, located in Neuss, Germany, develops and distributes extremely powerful, but at the same time exceptionally simple to use PDF (portable document format) software solutions, based on innovative JAVA technologies. This technology enables maximum independence concerning hardware and operating systems.

Focus of all solutions is the ease of use, a high efficiency, productivity and open platform strategy. Based on these components UNIVERSE Software provide lots of different solutions for your daily business: Create PDF forms & files, save filled out PDF forms, auto fill in PDF forms from databases, recover master passwords, process PDF forms data, convert FDF and much more. 100 % Adobe compatible, 90 % less expensive. The main benefits are: Quick, simple and useful.
UNIVERSE Software was founded in 1998.