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Question: How to Remove Certification from Certified Document?

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Apr 30, 2023 Apr 30, 2023

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I am aiming to combine several PDFs into a single PDF using the "Combine Files" tool in Adobe Acrobat, but one of the files has a Warnings/Error: Certified documents cannot be merged", which is accompanied by another error message: "Acrobat does not support the conversion of one or more of your files to PDF. Please remove these files or go to Settings and choose the PDF Portfolio option."

 

The Certified document does not need to be formally signed or approved in any way in the resulting combined file.

 

Using the PDF Portfolio option is not preferred, as the document would benefit from the pages being in a specific order, inserting appendices in-line in sequence, as opposed to separate files.

 

How can I remove 'Certification" on a PDF file?

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Edit and convert PDFs , General troubleshooting , How to , Security digital signatures and esignatures

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May 01, 2023 May 01, 2023

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See here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/edit-signed-PDF.html

It looks that depending on what has been done to the document, it is not possible to remove the certification.

The possibility I see is to print and scan.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Aug 24, 2024 Aug 24, 2024

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This is a rather frustrating answer for people that have to BATES number 20,000 pages or more at a time for court ordered document production, with many documents "certified."  I hope one day that there is a better way to handle this situation other than print & scan.

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Oct 30, 2024 Oct 30, 2024

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Good afternoon, everyone.

 

I was able to acheive the desire result by "extracting" the certified pages. That way the certification was removed. I hope this helps.

 

Have a good one!

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