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remove-pdf-protection.md

Remove the owner password from an encrypted PDF using Ghostscript

Note: you still need to know the password for opening the file

brew install ghostscript # on macOS
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dPrinted=true -dShowAnnots=false -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPDFPassword=YOUR_PDF_PASSWORD -sOutputFile=unlocked.pdf -f locked.pdf
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