We receive password protected bank statements, credit card statements, mobile bills and salary slips every month. It’s quite OK to have passwords for PDF files that we rarely use but the situation changes as we use the file more frequently. It can be monotonous and tiresome to type the password each time you need to open the PDF file. Even sometimes we need to share these PDF files, in such cases, we can remove the password protection from a PDF file by decrypting it. PDF decryption is very easy but requires specialized software to do that. In this tutorial, we will see how to remove password from PDF file in a distinct method. The easiest and recommended way to remove password is using the Google Chrome browser.

1. Drag and drop password protected PDF file into Google Chrome browser.
2. Google Chrome will now prompt you to enter the password of the file. Enter the password and hit Enter to open the file.
3. Now go to the File menu in Google Chrome and choose Print (or press Ctrl+P on Windows or Cmd+P on Mac). Choose the destination printer as “Save as PDF” and click the Save

Google Chrome will now save the PDF to your PC but without the password protection. If you re-open this PDF , it will open without  prompting password.

source: sandeep singh, Codegena