How To Recover A Lost PDF Password

PDF files are excellent ways to pass around your documents are they can be viewed on any computer. All sorts of computers: Windows, Linux, Mac, even PDAs and mobile phones.

It’s also possible to keep your PDFs from prying eyes by password protecing them. So whenever someone needs to read the sensitive information in the PDF, they need to tap in a password.

Which is fine until you need to open a password protected PDF file but you’ve put the password somewhere “safe”. Like in your home email and you’re trying to open the file at the office. Or maybe the email with the password has been deleted. Or you thought “I’ll always remember that password” and never wrote it down. It could be the PDF was protected by someone who no longer works for your company.

The other products that get protected by passwords are ebooks that you’ve just bought. For whatever reason, the product’s owner is paranoid and thinks that every customer has the ulterior motive of stealing their product. My personal view on this is that they should get real. And I then promptly re-name the file with the password included so that I won’t have to remember where the password was stored. I haven’t always done this and some files have had to stay locked.

Often you only realize a password has been lost at the last minute. So you need to retrieve the password quickly.

There are several ways to get around this problem.

You can give up and hope that there’s nothing of importance in the file.

You can tap away using your favorite passwords in the hope that you’ll come across the lost password sooner rather than later.

You can download an inexpensive PDF password recovery program that will do all the typing for you and will find the lost PDF password for you in a matter of minutes.

Discover one of the best PDF password recovery programs I’ve come across.

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