PDF Password Retriever – Retrieve PDF Password

PDF file format has a good feature that it supports to use owner password to prevent being modified by other users. However, if the owner himself forgets the password, it will be a troublesome thing. The tool PDF Password Retriever is a useful application that it can retrieve your owner password for your owned PDF files.

You can download a trial version of the application here to evaluate the application, and buy a license for it from its website after the trial. The interface of the application is like that presented in the following screen snapshot. The table in the upper part of the interface lists those PDF files whose owner passwords are retrieved by the application.

Step 1. Drag your PDF files encrypted by owner passwords from the Windows Explorer and drop them into the main interface of the application. Then you will see a dialog requiring for a directory to saving those new PDF files with owner passwords retrieved. The application removes the passwords instantly after your pulling them into the main interface. After removing the owner passwords, you can set new owner passwords to those PDF files saved in the specified directory. Note that you have to input the user (open) password if the PDF file is encrypted by a user password. A user password is for preventing opening the PDF file, and PDF Password Retriever needs this user password to access the PDF file and remove the owner password.

After removing the forgotten old owner password, you can set a new owner password for the PDF file.

PDF Password Retriever has these listed features:
Support all Windows platforms – it supports running in Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/2008/7 systems of both 32 and 64-bit.
Batch process – it can remove the passwords from more than one owner password protected pdf files in a batch process mode.
Instantly retrieve – it removes the passwords instantly after opening the PDF files.
Support PDF format of version 1.8 – it supports to unlock files of PDF version 1.8.
Support various decryption methods – it supports to unlock the PDF files encrypted by owner password of 40-bit RC4, 128-bit RC4 and AES.
Independent of Adobe Acrobat – it is not dependent of the environment of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe PDF Reader.