Remove PDF Restrictions using free software or online tools

A PDF author or owner can put different restrictions on his/her PDF file. So, depending on the restrictions enabled on PDF, you won’t be able to copy the content of PDF document, open PDF without the correct password, edit text, annotate or highlight PDF, take high-quality print of PDF file, etc. If you want to remove such restrictions from some PDF, then this post has easy solutions.

Before you hurry to remove PDF restrictions, you must have the password that was set to enter permissions/restrictions. Otherwise, these options won’t work.

Remove PDF Restrictions free

This post includes two free online tools and two free software to remove permissions from PDF. While services put a size limit on PDF files, software covered on this post help you add PDF without any size limit. Let’s check these PDF permission remover software and services.

1. Online2pdf.com
2. PDF2Go
3. PDF Restrictions Remover
4. PDF Unlock.

Let us take a look at them.

1] Online2pdf.com

Online2pdf.com offers a lot of features. It lets you compress PDF documents, rotate pages, convert PDF to Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, rearrange PDF pages, protect PDF, unlock PDF, etc. You need to use that unlock PDF feature to remove permissions from PDF.

The option that makes it better is you can remove restrictions from multiple PDF files at a time. You can upload 20 PDF files at once and also set the option to get separate PDF files in the output or a single or merged PDF file. The size limit is restricted to 100 MB for a single PDF and 150 MB for multiple PDFs.

To remove restrictions from PDF, use this link. After that, you can upload single or multiple PDF files using the Browse button. When a PDF file is uploaded, click on PDF read protection icon and enter the opening password. If PDF is not password protected, you can leave that option. After that, make sure convert to option is set to PDF so that you will get the output in PDF format only.

Use Convert button and then you will get the output PDF without any restrictions. Before conversion, you can also add new permissions (opening password, lock modifying, etc.) using the Protection tab. Otherwise, generate unlocked PDF and use it.

2] PDF2Go

PDF2Go service has features similar to Online2pdf.com. You can use different tools like compress PDF, sort and delete PDF pages, make PDF searchable, change the size of PDF page, protect PDF, repair PDF, unlock PDF, etc. The unlock feature has some interesting options that make it useful.

You can unlock multiple PDFs or a single PDF. It supports four ways to upload a PDF. You can upload a PDF from desktop, Dropbox, Google Drive, or add URL of an online PDF. This service can be used without sign up or with a free account. The free unregistered plan lets you upload PDF with a maximum of 50 MB size and unlock 3 PDFs at once. On the other hand, its free registered plan supports 100 MB size PDF and helps you unlock 5 PDFs at a time.

Click here to open its PDF unlock page. After opening it, upload PDF from any of the supported sources, provide the opening password of PDF, and then press Start button. This will do the work and remove permissions from PDF.

Read: How to remove Password from PDF with Free Software or Online Tool.

3] PDF Restrictions Remover

PDF Restrictions Remover is free software with a very simple interface. It has the feature to batch remove restrictions from PDF files. You can add different PDFs, add their opening passwords, and then begin the process to generate output PDF files that won’t have any printing, copying, and editing restrictions.

Using this PDF protection remover is also easy. Use Add PDF button and enter their passwords. You can also arrange orders of input files and remove any PDF from the list. Press Create PDF button and it will remove restrictions and store output files in a separate folder. You can’t set the output folder. It automatically creates a folder under Documents and opens that folder once all the PDFs are processed.

You can download this software from here.

4] PDF Unlock

PDF Unlock is a tiny software and the feature to remove restrictions from PDF works very well. You can also add multiple PDFs, but all those PDFs should have the same opening password to remove restrictions. If your PDF documents have different passwords, then you need to unlock them one by one.

Use Select PDF/s button to add a PDF file. Though its interface shows you can drag PDFs but this feature doesn’t work. When PDF is added, provide the opening password. You also have the choice to save unlocked PDFs in the same original folder or some other folder. Set the options and press Unlock button to get the output.

You can download it here.

So these are some good options to remove PDF restrictions after which you can copy, print, modify, and highlight PDF files. Hope these options will help.