PDF Password Protected

Alternatively, print -> run through scanner -> OCR -> correct whatever the OCR missed and take it from there?

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

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Yep. That would work, but it's multiple pages :-(

I tried the old trick of printing to your favorite file format, PostScript, but it wouldn't play ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Just print to another PDF.

There is a thingamagic on my multifunction unit wot slurps in the whole stack. Scans it to pretty much any format you wish. Except Postscript, of course.

No sheet feeder? And you call me a cheapskate? Tsk, tsk, tsk. There is always the option of having at scanned in at a copy shop. Maybe Kinko's does that?

Coulda told ya :-)

Can't you highlight the text, then right click and select 'Copy'?

There is software online to crack PDF passwords, but can it be trusted?

Just one? I have both USB & SCSI version made by HP. I also have a couple made to scan negatives

I have no problem installing Postscript as part of PDF 995. I've installed it on dozens of computers with no problems

I bought this one a few years back, it works well:

What software are you opening it with? I'm asuning Adobe Acrobat. Can you open it with another reader, for example Foxit and cut-paste- save?

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ABBYY Screenshot Reader. $10, last time I checked.

It won't crack the password, but it will grab the text from the screen and spit it out via cut & paste to whatever application you like. It's reasonably good at what it does. And if you do encounter problems, zooming before capture usually fixes them.

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Google pdf password cracker.... :)

Install the "generic (text) printer", point it to FILE and print hat PDF.

If you can print it, I think you can print to a (new) PDF using one of the freeware PDF print creating programs.

That hasn't worked for a very long time. I dug into it once a few years back-- it's a bit complex IIRC.

I suppose there may be some way to defeat it, but offhand I can't see how printing it to a new PDF, via an installed "looks like a printer to Windows" PDF engine, would inherit any protections. You'd lose any digital signatures and meta-data but the body should come across okay.

I've done just this for some datasheets that are protected against commenting, where I wanted to add highlights to the text or some extra notes.

It doesn't pass along the protection, it just prints a blank (or almost blank) page, IIRC.

I think I remember it working a LONG time ago (> 5 years). Why anyone "protects" data sheets I have no idea??!??

Okay, I tried it.. here is the result-- two pages printed, first one blank, second one has some Courier text indicating a Postscript type error:

ERROR: undefined OFFENDING COMMAND: get STACK: /quit

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Interesting. Just tried it with a protected NXP datasheet. Printed okay and looks fine in the PDF viewer but it came across as strictly an image, no embedded text, so it's not searchable.

Annoying. I *know* I've managed to do this.

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Try this: Install Ghostscript/GSview open file with GSView then file-> convert-> select pdfwrite So far this has worked for all pdf's I have tried.

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I tried that... produces a lot of continuous "___________________..." ...Jim Thompson