# Remove a password

Take the password off a PDF when you know it. Remove the password from your own PDF. Free to use. No sign-up. Your files never leave your device.

Use it here: https://pannapdf.app/unlock-pdf/

Unlock a PDF for free. Remove the password from a PDF when you know the password, for example a bank statement or an Aadhaar or payslip PDF, so it opens without asking again. It also removes printing and copying restrictions. It does not guess or crack unknown passwords.

Also known as: unlock PDF, remove PDF password, PDF password remover, remove password from PDF, decrypt PDF, unprotect PDF.

## How it works

1. Choose the locked PDF.
2. Type its password and tick the box to confirm it is your file.
3. Press "Remove the password" and save the unlocked PDF.

## Questions people ask

### Can this open a PDF when I do not know the password?

No. You need the password to remove it.

## About Panna

Every tool runs inside the visitor's own browser. Files are never uploaded; they do not leave the phone or computer. There is no sign-up and no charge, and the site adds no watermark of its own to the files. The site can be shown in 19 languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese, Maithili, Nepali, Sindhi, Konkani, Dogri, Sanskrit.

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