Suppose you're searching for references, and you finally find the desired data or content in a downloaded PDF file. But to your disappointment, the PDF is secured with passwords and refuses to copy and edit its content. So you desperately want a solution to copy text from secured PDF. Here is exactly the right place where you can know how to copy text from secured PDF.
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Generally, the passwords applied to secure PDF files include two types of passwords, open password and permission password.
Open password is used to prevent users from opening the PDF file, let alone editing or copying text from PDF. When trying to open such a secured PDF, the PDF viewer will prompt you to enter the right password. If you forget it, a robust PDF password cracker is necessary to get rid of it. But make sure that you have the right to access the PDF file.
Permission password is a restriction set on files to stop users from printing, copying, modifying, etc. That means, you can open the PDF successfully, but fail to do some changes on this file. This type of password is less secured than open password, since it is easier to bypass even without knowing the password.
Though there are numerous tools enabling you to copy text from secured PDF, few of them can really provide you with an effective way to open a PDF without typing the open password. In this case, you’ll need a PDF unlock tool to crack the password by brute force. Cisdem PDF Password Remover is such a program that helps users unlock password protected PDF and enables you to copy text from these files.
Standing out from the average PDF unlockers, this app has a powerful brute force ability to remove any password protection from PDF files, even without knowing the password. Meanwhile, it won’t damage the quality of the original file. By removing the password from PDF, you’ll be able to open the PDF file without restriction next time, also edit, print or copy PDF content effortlessly.
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If your PDF is only secured with permission password, you will have more choices to copy text from it. For example, some OCR programs allow users to import such secured PDF files into the program directly, and auto convert them to word or text. Here are two commonly-used programs helping you copy text from secured PDF without a hitch.
The first one is OneNote, a well-known note-taking application. It is designed to be organized and cross-functional, satisfying all your note-taking needs. Actually, it comes with an OCR technology that supports recognizing the text in the PDF or images, so you can copy and paste the text to anywhere you want.
Another one is Google Docs, a part of Google Drive suite to create, edit and share documents, based on web. It has a built-in OCR engine that helps open native PDF, scanned PDF and even secured PDF in the program as Word format. It means Google Docs performs PDF-to-Word conversion automatically.
Most browsers are also capable of copying text from secured PDF. They do this job with their print feature. That is to say, this method only works if the secured PDF is not locked for printing. Here we take Google Chrome as an example to share you how to copy text from secured PDF using a browser.
After reading the whole article, you should have a good grasp of how to copy text from secured PDF. All methods mentioned above can do this job efficiently when it comes to permission password. But if you are looking for an once-and-for-all solution to all your secured PDF problems, only Cisdem PDF Password Remover can fill the bill.
Carolyn has always been passionate about reading and writing, so she joined Cisdem as an editor as soon as she graduated from university. She focuses on writing how-to articles about PDF editing and conversion.
