PDF Password Recovery Methods

PDF files are a fantastic was to store computer documents. They can be opened on near enough any computer and the file will look the same as it was originally intended. Not just machines running Windows.

You can also make your PDFs more secure by putting a password on them. So whenever someone needs to read the sensitive information in the PDF, they need to tap in a password.

Which is fine until the moment you need to open a PDF that's password protected but you've stored the password in a "safe" place. Maybe the email is at home and you can't access that PC from wherever you are. It could be you've changed your email address or the email was on your old computer and never got swapped across. Or you thought "I'll always remember that password" and never wrote it down. It could be the PDF was protected by someone who no longer works for your company.

Ebooks you've just bought often have a password to "protect" them (I've no idea why they do this). For some reason, the product owner thinks that because you've just paid them good money, you're now going to rip them off. Personally I think that treating customers like thieves will make them more open to sharing files. After that, I re-name the PDF file so that it includes the password. That way it's easy to find the password and I don't have to hunt through all my emails to find it. I haven't always done this and some files have had to stay locked.

Whatever the reason for the lost PDF password, it means you can't quickly get into the PDF to read it.

There are several ways to get around this problem.

You can give up and hope that there's nothing of importance in the file.

If you've got time on your hands, you can start to enter all your "favorite" password combinations. Usually in the vain hope that you'll quickly find the password you used to protect the file.

You can get hold of a cheap PDF password recovery program that will do all the hard work for you and will find the lost PDF password for you in a matter of minutes.

Discover one of the best PDF password recovery programs I've found.