PDF Utilities — PDF Cowboy

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Drop a PDF to protect

Or click to browse · Password-protect your PDF

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Open password *

Enter a password

Confirm password

Owner password (optional — controls edit permissions)

Restrict permissions Allow printing Allow copying text Allow modifying

Output filename

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Drop a protected PDF

Or click to browse · Removes password protection

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Enter the current password to unlock and save an unprotected copy. The original file is not modified.

Current password

Output filename

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Drop a PDF to compress

Or click to browse · Reduces file size by removing redundant data

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⚠ Browser-based compression removes redundant data and restructures the PDF. Works best on text-heavy PDFs. Image-heavy PDFs may see limited reduction.

Output filename

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Drop a damaged PDF

Or click to browse · Attempts to recover and rebuild the PDF

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Repair attempts to reload and rebuild the PDF structure. It can fix minor corruption — truncated files, broken cross-reference tables, and encoding issues. Severely damaged files may not be recoverable.

Output filename

PDF Utilities — protect, unlock, compress and repair PDFs