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December 29, 2017
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How to remove password protection on pdf file

  • December 29, 2017
  • 3 replies
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I'm trying to convert a downloaded bank statement from PDF to Microsoft word.  It is telling me I have to remove password protection.

How do I do this?  In the past this has never come up.

    Correct answer try67

    You need Adobe Acrobat and to know the password to do it.

    3 replies

    Participant
    April 9, 2020

    I clicked on closing the pop up screen 3 times and it worked..  but the pop up still keeps happening when I open a PDF.  but 3 clicks and the pw screen goes away...Adobe this is surely a softward fix!

    try67
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 12, 2020

    I don't know what application you used but in Adobe Acrobat and Reader if you don't enter the correct password three times it goes away, but doesn't open the file, of course.

    Legend
    December 31, 2017

    Banks do not usually reveal the password used (I think they make it randomly and do not know it themselves). So you cannot do this.

    try67
    Community Expert
    try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    December 29, 2017

    You need Adobe Acrobat and to know the password to do it.

    Participant
    September 29, 2023

    This may be obvious, but I need to know a way to remove the privacy restriction from an agreement that was signed that I created

     

    try67
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 29, 2023

    Did you sign it? If no, then you can't do it.