How to Edit A Secured PDF[With or Without Passwords]

PDF files are highly secure and are used for printing, reading, and sending needs. A secured PDF file may contain two types of passwords, open passwords, and permission passwords. Open passwords require the user to enter the correct characters to open the file and permission passwords require you to modify the file restrictions.

There can be different ways for you to open and edit a secured PDF file. Some ways require a password to open your file, especially files with open passwords. In the case of a permission password, you can remove the password and unlock the file to make it editable through certain applications. Continue reading for ways to easily edit your secured PDF files.

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How to Edit Secured PDF with Password

The editing of PDFs on Windows and Mac is very easy if you know the password, just open the PDF and enter the password to edit. PDFgear Desktop can be a simple and user-friendly tool to support you in editing PDFs, this tool offers various editing options including editing PDF text, highlighting, and adding comments.

With the software’s OCR feature, it will take you to extract the text on the images within your PDF file and make it editable and searchable. Now let’s see how to edit PDF in PDFgear.

Step 1. Lanch PDFgear Desktop

First, click the download button below to download PDFgear Desktop software to your Windows or Mac device. Then, launch PDFgear on your computer.

Click the Upload Files button on the main interface to import secured PDF files into the program. Then a window will pop up asking for a password, you have to enter the correct password in it.

Step 2. Edit the secured PDF

When your PDF file is opened in the editor, you can see various function options in the top menu bar.

Under the View tab, click the “Edit Text” button, which will allow you to edit and replace the text in the PDF. You can not only add text boxes, notes, and comments to the PDF document but also insert page numbers, signatures, watermarks, and more with the software.

Step 3. Download the New PDF

Next, click the “Protect” option in the top toolbar, and then select “Remove” from the right side of the interface. Then a window will pop up, click the “OK” option, which will remove the password from the PDF document.

After finishing the changes, you can click the Save button to save the changes. Using PDFgear, you can also save your PDF files as Microsoft Office files, images, HTML files, and other formats.

How to Edit Secured PDF without Password

If you don’t know the password or forget the password, there are many ways to unlock your secured documents and also get rid of the password. iLovePDF efficiently handles your digital documents while ensuring your data is safe and secured. Remove PDF password security, iLovePDF gives you the freedom to use your PDFs.

Protected PDF documents can only be edited by the author. Before you start, please make sure you have the right to remove the protection on the document. If the method doesn’t work for your case, check our guide to unlocking PDFs without a password for more solutions.

Step 1. Unlock PDF online

Drag and drop your document in the iLove PDF PDF Password Remover to make sure you have the permission of the file. Then click “Unlock PDF”.

The decryption process should start immediately. After the secured PDF document is unlocked, click “Download File” to save the document.

Step 2. Edit the unlocked PDF online

You can drag and drop your PDF files into PDFgear online editor.

Start editing your PDF documents by selecting the text, shapes, comments, or annotations buttons. You can modify your PDFs however you like.

Step 3. Download the edited PDF

When you have finished editing the PDF, tap on the Download file button in the upper right corner to export the file to your computer.

To Sum Up

If you know the password, you can easily edit a secured PDF document. Even if you don’t know the password, there are many third-party tools to unlock the protected document. You can use the methods mentioned in this article to edit a secured PDF, hopefully, this article will help you successfully edit a secured PDF file. And if you need further instructions on adding page numbers to markup your edited PDF pages, don’t forget to check the guide.