PDF Password Recover

It's often difficult to keep track of numerous, different passwords applied to your PDF documents if you don't resort to a password manager. In such cases, you can use PDF Password Recover to try and recover the lost or forgotten key using brute force.

This software application comes bundled with advanced settings to help you decrypt PDF files to extract the correct passwords, as well as to remove password protection if you wish. Nevertheless, the options are intuitive enough to be used even by those who haven't worked with such tools before.

Installing PDF Password Recover doesn't take long but it cannot work unless you have .NET Framework. It gets launched in a clean window that reveals all configuration settings put at your disposal, so you can get an overview before diving into the task.

Only one PDF file can be processed at a time. After adding it to the list, you can instruct the application to recover the user or owner password, or both. As far as recovery options are concerned, you can indicate the initial password length and increase or decrease it to a maximum or minimum length.

When it comes to the charset that will be included in the brute force, you can exclude any type of characters from upper and lower case letters, numbers, space, and other symbols. If you remember any details about the password, it's important to customize the settings accordingly since this speeds up the entire recovery job. Once the password is recovered, the utility can be asked to remove it from the PDF document so you can access it like any other file.

PDF Password Recover quickly recovered the "123456" password in our tests. We've noticed that it tries character combinations in alphabetical order. It's wrapped in an intuitive interface and offers a simple solution for decrypting PDF documents if you cannot remember the passwords.