Reduce people’s access by password protecting your PDF documents.
On this very page, you’re learning how to protect PDF files using passwords that you can keep for yourself and/or share with a limit circle of people.
Never let anybody access your PDF again unless they don’t have a password.
Let’s get at it!
Secure your documents and password protect then in the following way:
This is the fastest way to password protect a PDF without Adobe Acrobat or any other paid tool. At SignHouse, we do these things for free.
Worried that you’ll forget the password or you want to change it? Besides this tool, we have a PDF unlock tool to help you remove the password that you’ve just set.
You might not be able to secure a PDF because the original file isn’t yours. If so, the easiest way to password protect a PDF is to use a free online tool like ours:
That’s how you properly secure a PDF without installing any app!
Yes, 100%. As long as you don't share the password with anybody that would leak it, your PDF is guaranteed to be secure.
Yes, you can! For free and without downloading any software, follow these steps:
To unlock a PDF document without having its password, upload it to SignHouse and select the option to remove the password. Wait a few seconds and the download the unlocked PDF.
You can password-protect a PDF online, using the Google Chrome browser:
Upload your emailed PDF in our password protecting software, type and confirm the password, and then you can download the secured PDF.