Advanced PDF Password Recovery

If you wish to secure your PDF documents, locking them with a password makes for a great method to keep prying eyes away. Pretty much all PDF applications contain tools to allow you to encrypt a document, which makes the process easy and accessible to anyone looking for a bit more security.

Unless you lose the password for your encryption, the solution can work really well. If you do happen to lose the password, however, you might have some luck with Advanced PDF Password Recovery, a tool capable of retrieving passwords through several algorithms.

Retrieving a password used for encrypting a document is much harder than recovering an account on some website, but with such a tool at your disposal, hope is not lost. As the options are limited, such tools mainly operate through brute-forcing your authentication.

The program is very straightforward in how easy it is to configure the retrieval process: you can have the tool brute-force your password, or take a masking attack approach. Dictionary and Key Search are the other two available types of attack, which change how the algorithm goes about brute-forcing your password.

Users can set range options for the brute-forcing to be more targeted: you can exclude or include digits, special symbols, as well as upper and lowercase letters. You can set minimum and maximum password lengths, serving to make the algorithm more precise. These options are best used when you can recall a part of your password.

Interestingly, an auto-saving option is available. This means that users can stop and resume the retrieval process anytime they wish, so that unfinished brute-forcing sessions aren't wasted.

Advanced PDF Password Recovery may not work all the time — depending on the complexity of your password, it may not work at all  — in regaining you access to your protected PDF files, but such a solution is nevertheless worth trying.