How to Extract a PDF with Open/Permission Password

Protecting PDFs with a password is an effective way to keep PDFs secure from unauthorized access. However, it sometimes seems a challenge to extract pages or specific content from password-protected PDFs.

For example, you have received a password-protected PDF contract from the client. Now, you want to only share a specific page or section from the contract with another party. This raises the question on how to extract a PDF with password.

This article has the solution you are looking for. In this guide, we will discuss the easy and quick ways to extract pages and content from secured PDFs.

Part 1. How to Extract a PDF with Password

To extract pages from a secure PDF with an open password, you need the PDF password to unlock the file.

The open password protection does not let anyone access the PDF content and pages unless the password is provided. Besides that, you need a PDF editor that can help extract a PDF with password. This is where UPDF comes into action.

UPDF is a powerful PDF editor and organizer tool that helps to easily extract a PDF with password. It provides the simplest interface to unlock password-protected PDFs and then extract pages from them.

The key features of UPDF include:

• Easily unlock PDF with an open/permission password.
• Click-based extract pages from a PDF.
• Two extract modes: extract pages as one file or extract pages as multiple files.
• Intuitive interface with no learning curve.
• Compatibility with Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.

Other than extracting pages, UPDF can also insert, replace, split, or delete pages from the PDF. Moreover, you can also use it to edit a secured PDF. In short, it is an all-in-one PDF organizer tool.

Here are the steps to learn how to extract a PDF with password using UPDF:

Step 1. Install and launch UPDF. Open the PDF and enter the password to unlock it.

Step 2. After the PDF is opened, click the "Organize Pages" option from the left sidebar.

Step 3. Select the "Extract" tab. Tap all the PDF pages you want to extract, choose the right Extract Mode, and click "Extract".

That's it! This way, a three-step process with UPDF lets you easily extract a PDF with password.

Since UPDF is a "PDF editor" tool, this implies that its capabilities are beyond just extracting PDF pages. It offers many other advanced features to handle PDF activities, such as:

• Edit PDF's text, images, links, headers/footers, backgrounds, and more.
• Highlight, mark, draw, underline, strikethrough, add stamps/stickers, and do other PDF annotations.
• Convert PDF to other file formats.
• Chat with PDF with UPDF AI assistant and get summaries/translations/explanations.
• Compress PDF with a simple click.
• Secure cloud storage to save and access PDFs anywhere.
• Fill and sign secured PDF.
• OCR scan to convert scanned PDFs to editable PDFs.

Overall, UPDF is your ultimate all-in-one PDF editor tool to handle all PDF activities proficiently. Simply install UPDF and try its features yourself.

To learn more about UPDF, read this review article by PDF Association.

Part 2. How to Extract a Secured PDF without Permission Password

Besides the open password, PDFs are sometimes "permission" protected. In this protection, the reader cannot edit or print the PDF. To extract a secured PDF without a permission password, you can use aJoysoft.

aJoysoft is a PDF password remover tool that provides one-click PDF decryption. It helps users who have forgotten the permission password and want to remove it to unlock PDFs to edit, copy, and print.

What you have to do is use aJoysoft to unlock the PDF without permission password and then use UPDF to extract pages from the PDF.

Follow the below steps to learn how to extract pages from secured PDF without password:

Step 1. Install and launch aJoysoft on your Windows/Mac computer.

Step 2. Click "Add Files" and upload the PDF whose permission password you want to remove.

Step 3. Click "Remove Password" and select the location where you want to save the unlocked PDF. Once done, aJoysoft will instantly remove the permission password from the PDF.

Step 4. Now you need to turn to UPDF to extract pages from your PDF. Simply download it and open the PDF in it.

Step 5. Go to the "Organize Pages" option from the left sidebar.

Step 6. Tap "Extract" and extract all the pages you want.

This way, you can bypass the permission password with aJoysoft and extract pages with UPDF. So, install aJoysoft and UPDF and solve your query about how to extract a PDF with password.

Part 3. How to Extract Data from a PDF That Locked with Password

Sometimes, the need is to extract data/content from a PDF that is locked with a password. For example, a research team is working on a financial audit report and receives a password-protected PDF containing sensitive financial data. The team needs to extract specific tables for deeper analysis. However, the password protection does not let them access/copy the data.

It is straightforward to extract data from a locked PDF. You can use either of the methods from the above to unlock the PDF, i.e., you can use UPDF or aJoysoft to remove the password. Afterward, you can use UPDF to extract data. For that, you can use the "Edit PDF" feature of UPDF to extract text, images, or graphs.

Alternatively, you can use the "Convert PDF" feature of UPDF to convert the PDF into editable format (Word/text) and then extract data.

In short, UPDF has a solution for you on every query related to how to extract a PDF with password. Therefore, it's time to hit the download button below to install UPDF and extract pages/data from locked PDFs right away.

Conclusion

In this guide, we have learned how to extract a PDF with password using UPDF – the powerful PDF editor. It is evident that an "open" password PDF gives no room to extract pages or data without entering the password. However, it is possible to bypass the "permission" password with aJoysoft. Nevertheless, the main thing is to hold the password that unlocks the PDF and use the UPDF PDF editor to easily extract pages or data from the PDF.

Don't get yourself more confused! Install UPDF and extract secured PDFs easily.