atw: Re: pdf security

Bill,

One trick I have used to extract content out of a locked PDF is to print the
pdf to pdf.

The outcome that is generated will not be locked.




On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Bill Parker <renew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I have the task of making a database from ten years worth of annual
> scientific conferences.
>
> Each year is stored on CD and one of them has all the papers inaccessible
> to COPY and demanding a password.   This was 1999.   (There are PDFs on the
> CD that are copyable.
>
> The original editor has no idea about any passwords.   Is there any way
> around this?
>

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