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Alexander Turcic · 08-04-2006, 04:09 AM

There is encrypted PDF and there is encrypted PDF. Standard encrypted files using Adobe tools are usually easy to decrypt. But then, for instance, I bought a science document that is protected with SoftSEAL, where the original PDF content is encrypted and placed in a "container". The only way to view the content is by using a "special viewer" that is hooked into Adobe Reader. Quite a nuisance - but it appears to have been secure from crackers so far.

I'd ignore commercial tools like PDF2Word that claim to generally support encrypted PDF documents.

08-04-2006, 04:09 AM	#8
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	There is encrypted PDF and there is encrypted PDF. Standard encrypted files using Adobe tools are usually easy to decrypt. But then, for instance, I bought a science document that is protected with SoftSEAL, where the original PDF content is encrypted and placed in a "container". The only way to view the content is by using a "special viewer" that is hooked into Adobe Reader. Quite a nuisance - but it appears to have been secure from crackers so far. I'd ignore commercial tools like PDF2Word that claim to generally support encrypted PDF documents. Attached Thumbnails