Protecting your PDF with a password is a common everyday use case .
Using ColdFusion this can be done in a single easy step.
But sometimes we need to programmatically de-crypt/un-protect the same PDF.
There can be various ways of accomplishing this feat,but again ColdFusion makes it easy and a single step process
The trick to get to the treat ( the un-protected pdf , in this case ) is to use cfpdf tag and set your encyption to none using the "encrypt" attribute. You can do so only if you have the owner password , as technically only the document owner should have the permissions to change the security settings of a document
So assuming your PDF is called MyPdf.pdf with a owner password of "changesettings",use the below mentioned code to remove password protection from your PDF
Open MyUnsafePdf.pdf and you have your pdf without password protection
Using ColdFusion this can be done in a single easy step.
But sometimes we need to programmatically de-crypt/un-protect the same PDF.
There can be various ways of accomplishing this feat,but again ColdFusion makes it easy and a single step process
The trick to get to the treat ( the un-protected pdf , in this case ) is to use cfpdf tag and set your encyption to none using the "encrypt" attribute. You can do so only if you have the owner password , as technically only the document owner should have the permissions to change the security settings of a document
So assuming your PDF is called MyPdf.pdf with a owner password of "changesettings",use the below mentioned code to remove password protection from your PDF
<cfpdf action="protect" source="MyPdf.pdf" destination="MyUnsafePdf.pdf"
password="changesettings" encrypt="none" />
Open MyUnsafePdf.pdf and you have your pdf without password protection
