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pdfdecrypt

Remove passwords from PDF documents

Author:

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>

Version:

Version 0.1

Copyright:

2022 by Hartmut Goebel

Licence:

GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later (AGPLv3+)

Homepage:

https://pdfdecrypt.readthedocs.io/

pdfdecrypt is a command line tool and a Python library to remove passwords from PDF documents. It will read the encrypted document, ask for the password and write the decrypted document without touching any internal structure.

Requirements when Installating from Source

If you want to install pdfdecrypt from source, make sure you have the following software installed:

Hints for installing on Windows:

Following the links above you will find .msi and .exe-installers. Simply install them and continue with installing pdfdecrypt.

Hints for installing on GNU/Linux:

Most current GNU/Linux distributions provide packages for the requirements. Look for packages names like python-pypdf2. Simply install them and continue with installing pdfdecrypt.

Hint for installing on other platforms:

Many vendors provide Python. Please check your vendors software repository. Otherwise please download Python 3.8 (or any higher version from the 3.x series) from http://www.python.org/download/ and follow the installation instructions there.

If the commands below fail due to module pip not found, please install it using:

python -m ensurepip

Installing pdfdecrypt

If your system has network access installing pdfdecrypt is a breeze:

pip install pdfdecrypt

If you downloaded and unpacked pdfdecrypt just run:

python -m pip install .

Without network access download pdfdecrypt from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfdecrypt and run:

pip install pdfdecrypt-*.tar.gz

For more details like custom installation locations please refer to the official end user guide for installing Python packages.

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