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Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript

Terminal - Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=OUTPUT.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f INPUT.pdf
2009-12-14 21:30:22
User: deijmaster
Functions: gs
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Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript

Remove security from PDF document using this very simple command on Linux and OSX. You need ghostscript for this baby to work.

Alternatives

There are 11 alternatives - vote for the best!

Terminal - Alternatives
gswin32c -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sFONTPATH=%windir%/fonts;xfonts;. -sPDFPassword= -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dPassThroughJPEGImages=true -sOutputFile=OUTPUT.pdf INPUT.pdf

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This is just great, so I can finally remove wine and GetPDF Encryptor/Decryptor :-)

Comment by nickwe 183 weeks and 1 day ago

Any encrypted PDF's around to test with?

Comment by pykler 182 weeks ago

Can this metod crack PDF Example - Password protection in

http://www.novapdf.com/kb/pdf-example-files-created-with-with-novapdf-138.html ?

(128-bit key length encryption and requires a password to open it (you can open it using the password test))

Comment by adrruiz 108 weeks and 1 day ago

The script for Windows works like a charm. It deserves high votes.

To make it easy to use, add the path to gswin32c in your autoexec.bat file. Include the path to the input and output files in the command string (easiest to put them in the root directory of one of your drives).

Comment by tongass 52 weeks and 2 days ago

Well to be honest, there are some easy to use desktop utilities to unlock a PDF file from password restrictions. Give a try to this PDF security remover: http://mypdfsolutions.com/

It works!

Comment by pjones04 6 weeks and 6 days ago

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