How to Convert Password Protected PDF to Word Efficiently

Elise Williams

2021-10-29 15:58:23 • Filed to: How-To • Proven solutions

Most of the PDF documents when forwarding to a person are protected by the passwords. If the user wants to access or edit these files, they will have to enter the password. What to do if you receive a password-protected PDF file and want to convert them into a Word document? This guide will teach you how to convert password protected PDF to Word with PDFelement.

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Part 1. Convert Password Protected PDF to Word
Part 2. Video on How to Convert Password Protected PDF to Word

Convert Password Protected PDF to Word

Step 1. Import Your PDF

First of all, open your PDF file with PDFelement. You can either drag the PDF file to drop it into the program or click on the "Open files" button from the Home window to browse and select the PDF file to be opened.

If your PDF file has the open password to prevent you from opening it, then it will ask for the password when you try to open it, so enter the open password in order to open it.

Step 2. Convert Protected PDF to Word

Once you have opened the file in PDFelement, you will see a "Convert" tab, under which simply click on the "To Word" button. Now specify the destination folder and click on the "Save" button on this window. After that, your PDF document will be converted into a Word document without any password.

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However, if your PDF file has the permission password to prevent from changing or editing instead of the open password, then you need to enter the permission password before converting it to a Word file.

Video on How to Convert Password Protected PDF to Word

PDFelement is the best PDF to Word converter to remove the password from your PDF file. You can either create a new PDF file from Word documents, images, PPTs, or Excels or can convert the PDF Files to the Microsoft Office document, images, EPUB and more within a few seconds. Apart from that, you can also use this tool to edit the PDF file; you can add or remove text or images or can modify the existing text or images in the PDF file. If you want to edit PDF documents, you can get more details about how to edit PDF here.

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