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How to remove password and protection from pdf with pdf sdk in C# with ByteScout Premium Suite

Learn to remove password and protection from pdf with pdf sdk in C#

The coding instructions are formulated to help you to try-out the features without the requirement to write your own code. Want to remove password and protection from pdf with pdf sdk in your C# app? ByteScout Premium Suite is designed for it. ByteScout Premium Suite is the bundle that includes twelve SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording.

The following code snippet for ByteScout Premium Suite works best when you need to quickly remove password and protection from pdf with pdf sdk in your C# application. This C# sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! Applying C# application mostly includes various stages of the software development so even if the functionality works please test it with your data and the production environment.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDF;
using System;

namespace RemovePdfProtection
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                //Files
                string fileName = "ProtectedPDFFile.pdf";
                string fileName_UnProtected = "UnProtectedPDFFile.pdf";

                //Protected file password
                string filePassword = "admin@123";

                //Process file to remove password
                using (Document document = new Document())
                {
                    document.RegistrationName = "demo";
                    document.RegistrationKey = "demo";

                    document.Load(fileName, filePassword);

                    // Remove password protection and encryption
                    document.Security.OwnerPassword = String.Empty;
                    document.Security.UserPassword = String.Empty;
                    document.Security.EncryptionAlgorithm = EncryptionAlgorithm.None;

                    // Remove restrictions
                    document.Security.AllowAccessibilitySupport = true;
                    document.Security.AllowAssemlyDocument = true;
                    document.Security.AllowContentExtraction = true;
                    document.Security.AllowFillForms = true;
                    document.Security.AllowModifyAnnotations = true;
                    document.Security.AllowModifyDocument = true;
                    document.Security.AllowPrintDocument = true;
                    document.Security.PrintQuality = PrintQuality.HightResolution;

                    //Save Unprotected file
                    document.Save(fileName_UnProtected);
                }

                Console.WriteLine("PDF restrictions removed successfully!");
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
            }

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit....");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}