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Remove password : multiple PDFs (Action wizard) - Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

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April 3, 2022
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Hello I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

I have created an action converting multiple PDFs to txt files.

However, some PDFs are locked.

I can unlock a pdf, but I has to be one by one manually, and it is not convenient for me (~over 2 000 pdfs).

Is there a way to add a "step" in my already-existing action ?

I am open to solutions/suggestions already existing in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC or a programming one (i.e. Javascript since we can import scripts)

Thank you in advance

Correct answer Doc Maik

I stumbled across this problem today and could solve it. I already had an action to set a password, which works fine, but removing so far was a problem just from the actual action, until I did this:

a) Go to Prefs -> Action wizard and select "Password security" in the dropdown menu

b) Create an action where the first command is Encryption, set it to None and uncheck the option to open a requester

c) Add a command to save the file.

When now wanting to batch-remove passwords, make sure that no document is open. Then

a) Go to Tools -> Action wizard and select your remove password action.

b) Select one or multiple files. After that it should come up with a requester to enter the password and given that all documents use the same, it would now batch-remove and batch-save the PDFs without password.

Worked for me. The key point was the setting in the Prefs.

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Doc MaikCorrect answer

Legend

I stumbled across this problem today and could solve it. I already had an action to set a password, which works fine, but removing so far was a problem just from the actual action, until I did this:

a) Go to Prefs -> Action wizard and select "Password security" in the dropdown menu

b) Create an action where the first command is Encryption, set it to None and uncheck the option to open a requester

c) Add a command to save the file.

When now wanting to batch-remove passwords, make sure that no document is open. Then

a) Go to Tools -> Action wizard and select your remove password action.

b) Select one or multiple files. After that it should come up with a requester to enter the password and given that all documents use the same, it would now batch-remove and batch-save the PDFs without password.

Worked for me. The key point was the setting in the Prefs.

D

dan_6801

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This did not work for me, no such options, I probably don't have the full version of Acrobat.

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Adrienne_Cameron-Elli3449

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You probably mean like Standard and Pro version. Not sure, but I don't think the standard version wouldn't have that. The comparison at https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/pricing/compare-versions.html doesn't particular list something about PDF security.

So, do you have that Action Wizard and can create actions or not, or is it just mission options?

I don't understand why this is so complicated. I am subscribed to Acrobat Pro, but the only app available for me to download is Acrobat. It looks exactly like the screenshiots you have uploaded, but I cannot find any way to access the services I am supposedly paying for, so that I may be able to do this.

Bernd Alheit

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How does you convert PDF to text?

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MarrluxiaAuthor

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Recognising text using OCR and then changed the output of save (action already exists in action wizard list, just modified the output)

Bernd Alheit

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For the use of OCR you must enter the permission password.

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MarrluxiaAuthor

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EDIT: If there's no way to achieve that directly via Adobe Proc DC, is there a way, at least, to ignore automatically this type of pop-up messages ?

try67

Community Expert

No. That would defeat the entire purpose of having a security password, wouldn't it?

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MarrluxiaAuthor

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It's absurd though that I can remove the password (without knowing it) one by one via Adobe Acrobat Pro but cannot this to an action in order to apply it to multiple files...

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