You need to contact the original author of the PDF and ask them for the
password.
They put the password there to prevent unauthorized use of the document - such
as what you are trying to do. I am sure that if you tell them what you are
doing, and why, they will be glad to work with you...
Leonard
From: Subhrajyoti Moitra [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:47 AM
To: Post all your questions about iText here
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Unlocking PDF files.
Hi,
Let me tell you why i am doing this.
I want to append/prepend pages to the document. The final pdf need not be the
same doc (the source doc which is protected).
So what i want to do is:
Construct a new pdf file that adds(copies) a prepend.pdf, then copies the
source pdf and then another append pdf.
The final doc is combination of all the 3.
The issue is that i cant seem to accomplish this using PdfCopyFields. My code
is something like this
PdfCopyFields pcf=new PdfCopyFields(tempFileOutputStream);
pcf.addDocument(tempPrependReader);
pcf.addDocument(sourcePdfFileReader);//copy source pdf as is.
pcf.close();
While adding the sourcePdfFileReader i get the below exception. I wanted to
avoid this, is there a way to do this?
Thanks a lot for your time.
Subhro.
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM, 1T3XT info
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Subhrajyoti Moitra wrote:
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: PdfReader
> not opened with owner password
>
> I read in this link, this is possible: http://www.ensode.net/pdf_unlock.html
That link contains information about an action that is illegal.
You are not allowed to use iText to crack a PDF file.
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