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January 17, 2022
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Removing owner/permissions password [Extract API]

  • January 17, 2022
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Hi,
 
I have implemented removing a typical document user password from a pdf. (e.g. user cannot view contents unless password is entered)
 
My question is around removing permissions/owner passwords using the PDF Services API (user can view contents but cannot do certain actions like copying data)
 
For example is it possible to remove the ‘Disable copying and editing’ protection - we will have the password in this scenario.
 
I was able to find the resource for protecting a document with these permissions (Heading "Protect PDFs with owner password" - https://www.adobe.io/apis/documentcloud/dcsdk/docs.html?view=services) but nothing for removing the protection of these permissions.
 
Please let me know if this is possible. Thank you!
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January 18, 2022

Documentation (adobe.io) ?

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January 18, 2022

Thanks for you response! Could you please point me to the section that refers to removing master/permissions protection?

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January 18, 2022

Please go down the navigation bar at the left until you find "Remove protection" (sorry, I thought the link would be more specific).

 

You cannot selectively remove or change just part of the protection. The entire document is encrypted using the full security settings, so that would be impossible. You can remove all protection, and if you want to put back some other protections, then you can add them again.

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