Security

Protect and inspect PDFs

Set an open password. Open a file you already know. Check encryption versus a permission lock. Free. The file is not posted to PactPDF. Jobs run in this tab. Close the tab and the job is gone. No account.

Inspect Protect a PDF

What the tools do

Protect writes an open password with AES-256. Decrypt needs the password you already know. Unlock clears permission flags only. Inspect shows encryption versus a permission lock. Sanitize strips scripts, metadata, and extra objects. We do not guess passwords. No cracking. Download is the save. Occasional use is free.

Protect PDFOpen password on the file.Password protect PDFSame job as Protect.Decrypt PDFOpen password, then save unlocked.Unlock PDFStrip permission flags.Inspect PDFEncryption vs permission lock.Sanitize PDFStrip scripts and extra objects.Redact PDFDelete a string. Not a black box.

Protect

An open password on the file. Same job as Password protect. AES-256. The reader must type that password to open it.

Decrypt

You already know the password. Then save an unlocked copy. A wrong password fails. Nothing is guessed.

Unlock

Permission flags only. The file must already open. We do not guess passwords. No cracking.