To

#15 abbie; #17 Eldad; #18 ROOP
Googling for “ pdf passwords” I found
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-open-password-protected-pdf.html (4th item on my 8.72 mln hits results screen ;-):
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How to Open Password Protected PDF Documents - Digital Inspiration
Removing PDF Password Restrictions There are sometimes genuine reasons to unlock or crack a password protected PDF file. You have the legal right to open ...
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IMHO contains reliable info, links to software you may or may not know or be familiar with (which I am not sufficiently), and is written in consistent and understandable terminology…

#27 dt
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Wish the software developers could communicate in written english
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You do have a point here…but the marketing guys (financial numbercrunchers cum mass psychologists ?) and the advertising lads (mass psychologists with a artistic twitch ?) are not software developers -who, themselves, are by far the worst of communicators immaginable ;-)
One needs expertise, sound reasoning and experience to desypher statements that seem contradictory on first sight…

The confusion here may be due to the subtile difference between “owner” and “user” passwords.
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There are basically two types of PDF protection - the original PDF creator can either restrict opening the PDF file itself or he can restrict others from modifying, printing or copying text and graphics from the PDF file.
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Perhaps it may take some experimenting to get “the feel” of how and why this protection scheme works the way it does. And I am pretty certain that it has to do with legal (i.e. copyright protect) issues, since PDF has become “the” standard printer interface for next to all e-publications of import.
Comparing the first paragraph(s) from the link above with AnyBizSoft’s introduction makes me think…

Which brings me to

#16 prying1;
From the above link:
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Legal Issues: - you maybe surprised to learn that these PDF password cracking software are absolutely legal and Microsoft even awarded ElcomSoft a Gold Certified Partner status.
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And

Quoting prying1:
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I thought this program was a hacker tool of sorts. (…) Perhaps the initial description of this product should be revised a bit. Perhaps it was not intentional but I found it misleading.
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You ‘re not the only one to have had this impression.
From my reply #12 Patrick to Eldad #11
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” this sort of program is no hacking tool – the latter being what Ashraf’s comment is about.
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one may conclude that I, for one, had the same “instinctive” reaction (i.e. it being a hacking tool) which lead me to a “further analysis” of the seemingly contradictory statements in the developer’s advertisment and Ashraf’s review.

“Which closes the circle of my reasoning”.

#14 mike
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Googling “pdf crack” gets 77 million + hits, so there’s a fair chance you’ll find what you need/want. ;-)
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I love really BIG numbers! (Really SMALL ones also, btw.) The bigger or smaller they are the less they tell me something about the (tangible) world. Googling gets you ten’s of millions of hits –which I actually find rather rediculous, knowing that 10 out of only the first 100 to 200 max may be USEFUL HITS.
You must love sites like http://www.fpx.de/fp/Fun/Googolplex/
and (a googolplex+1) more… LOL!

#21 Mel
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The only software I’ve ever seen that has Latin as one of its languages!! :-))
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“Bis repetita placent”, my friend ;-))

To Ashraf
Greetings…

Pat.

Clean user interface, easy to use. Personally I would prefer if it defaulted to outputing back to source folder rather than the “Custom” folder, but that is trivial. FYI to users, when you are “Adding” files, previously added files remain there and get reprocessed every time you run the program for new files, so you should “clear” all entries before adding new ones.

It worked quickly and cleanly on 4 of 5 (from 3 different sources) PDF’s I tried, DEP’d on the 5th one.

I’m happy with it, will keep it. Much better than the similar tool offered a couple of days ago, I’ll be deleting that one.