Ever had to deal with this crap….

Say no more.. follow instruction below

METHOD 1 – QPDF with Gui (PDF Freedom)

Download the QPDF gui version here. Thanks to “J.P. Kloosterman” for making it up

https://www.mget.nl/static/files/PDF%20Freedom%20setup.exe

Open select input/ select output done.

 

METHOD 2 – Batch processing (QPDF command line tool)

1. Download the zip file from the link : Browse Files at SourceForge.net or direct download frm http://sourceforge.net/projects/qpdf/files/latest/download?source=files

2. Extract the archive to some location e.g. Desktop

3. Add your pdf to the “bin” folder of the extracted archive/folder structure.

4. Open command prompt. Easiest way is to right click on the bin folder while holding shift. There will be an option in the context menu “Opencommand window here”.

5. Type the following in the command window (black screen): qpdf -decrypt “Secured.pdf” “Unsecured.pdf” where “Secured.pdf” is the name of your file that you want to unsecure. Note the quotes are required. “Unsecured.pdf” is the name of the output file. Call it what you want.

Write this as a bat file in notepad and you can do hundreds of PDFS

Note:  For both of these methods If the PDF requires a password to OPEN the file this will not work. All other typical security is removed e.g. making changes, copying content etc