The Portable Document Format is a computer application with which you can protect the contents of the document from unauthorized access
. This file format has state-of-art security features with which you can protect the contents of the document from unauthorized viewing, editing, printing or copying. One can encrypt the PDF files to keep the confidential data intact and secure. A user can prepare files on different types of subjects and keep the data safe and transfer files across multiple platforms. This file format equips a user with a set of security features which is the most advanced and modified attribute of the application.
There are many situations when a person may require modifying documents. In the day to day work process many electronic files require modification. For instance, you may require modifying newsletters or business letters which you have created in a Portable Document Format. If the files have been encrypted in the format for the purpose of protecting the data, it becomes vital for the user to access the document with an authenticated password. In many situations, you may forget your password. It may also happen that a person has found some useful information available on the Internet and cannot have access to it as the content is presented in an encrypted PDF file. There are two ways in which a Portable Document Format is protected. A person can use user password in which a user accessing the files should enter an authenticated password. Another way is to protect the file with owner password in which an author can disable a few features of the document when it is accessed by the user. For instance, you can disable the features of printing, editing or copying the contents. There are many PDF password removers that can easily and swiftly remove the passwords. These are the computer programs which are available on the Internet. Some of the latest technology tools also equip a user with an ability to convert a non-editable scanned file into an editable image. This feature is called Optical Character Recognition. In this way, you can easily remove the password for using the content for constructive and fruitful purpose.