Many online materials like payrolls, inventory reports & other official stuff contain security. Means they don’t allow content copying, printing, form filling, etc due to some security measures. But, at times it becomes necessary for a user to copy data from these files for some important work. Therefore, to allow these kinds of permissions from PDF files we come-up with this write-up and presented the best possible solutions. Here we have covered two different solutions that will help users to unlock PDF for copying text or for printing/editing/signing, etc.

Remove PDF File Copy Protection by Adobe Acrobat Pro [Manually]

Adobe Acrobat Pro is still one of the best solutions while taking PDF permissions down. It is mainly used in enterprises & offices for handling PDF documents. Now, let’s come to the steps to unlock PDF for copying text:

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Steps to Remove Content Copying Security PDF

Step 1: If you do not already have Adobe Acrobat PRO pro, install it in your computer. You may use it’s 7 days free trial by given link

https://acrobat.adobe.com/in/en/free-trial-download.html

Step 2: Open the secure PDF file in Adobe Acrobat Pro, so you can check its workings.

Step 3: Check its permissions by first clicking on >>FILE then click on >>properties, you will see an image which describes all the PDF permissions.

Step 4: After checking permissions, you can change the desired permissions by selecting “No Security” from security method

Step 5: After choosing No Security, you have to provide the password of the secured PDF file

Step 6: After giving the password, you can easily see the next window in which all the permissions are removed

Now you have successfully unlock PDF for copying / printing / commenting / signing / form filling, etc., within a very short time period.

Now some of you might have a question like, what will this Adobe Acrobat Pro do if the permission password is not known? or we have forgotten the password?

Still, you don’t need to worry, we have another solution, which will not only answer your question but will do it in a very decent way

An Automated Way to Remove PDF File Copy Protection

SysTools PDF Unlocker is one of the most trustworthy software to unlock PDF security. Which allow you to access password protected files by removing “Owner level password security”. It not only removes permissions like copying, printing, commenting, signature restrictions, Page extracting, etc. but also provide PDF unlocking in batch ( within its Business & enterprise license).

Moreover, you don’t need to put extra efforts to use this application to unlock PDF for copying text. It is because this software has a very easy GUI, even a nontechnical person can use it easily.

How to Unlock PDF for Copy Paste – Step by Step

Step 1: For the people who are using it the first time, lets download & install SysTools PDF Unlocker form this link:

Step 2: When the download gets completed you will see an image like this, Now, click on the Unlock button to start the process

Step 3: Now click on the Browse button to select the secured PDF file from your local directory

Step 4: As soon as the file loads, click on the Open file button to open the file:
Step 5: Now you can easily see the permissions of PDF, click on the Browse button to give the address of the resultant PDF file

Then click on the Unlock Button to unlock PDF for copying, printing, editing, etc.

Step 6: After the unlocking of PDF file, a message box will pop up. Click on the “OK” button to proceed further.

Now the tool draws the comparison of the file restriction before & after unlocking of the PDF file.

Step 7: Now we will check wether the secured PDF is unlocked or not, by performing the following procedure

• First, we will open the PDF File » then we will select the content to be copied
• Then we will click on the Edit menu and then we select Copy File to Clipboard.

Step 8: At last we will check the print functionality by selecting Print from the File menu, if it gets selected then it can be printed with quite an ease:

Summing up

We are living in an era of technology, where schools, college, firms, market, kind of everything is going online. With this advancement of the era, we also have to upgrade ourself to match their standards.

Similarly, the PDF file format has taken control over all the documents from “Notes” to “Bank Account Statements”. This file has become very popular because of its portable nature, that is why they are either password protected or restricted. Due to which permissions like commenting, copying, printing, etc., are not allowed. In such situations tool like Adobe Acrobat Pro & SysTools PDF Unlocker became handy. They both provide very vast features, we can easily remove security from PDF files by using it.

In this blog, we have seen that, to unlock PDF for copying Adobe Acrobat Pro requires the permission password. This method gets fail if this password is not known to a user. Therefore, in such cases, SysTools PDF Unlocker can be used. This utility can remove pdf file copy protection, edit, print, sign, etc restrictions without asking for the permission password.