PDF files are a fantastic was to store computer documents. They can be opened on near enough any computer and the file will look the same as it was originally intended. Not just machines running Windows.
It's also possible to keep your PDFs from prying eyes by password protecing them. So whenever someone needs to read the sensitive information in the PDF, they need to tap in a password.
Which is fine until you need to open a password protected PDF file but you've put the password somewhere "safe". Maybe the email is at home and you can't access that PC from wherever you are. Or maybe the email with the password has been deleted. Or you thought "I'll always remember that password" and never wrote it down. It could be the PDF was protected by someone who no longer works for your company.
Ebooks you've just bought often have a password to "protect" them (I've no idea why they do this). For whatever reason, the product's owner is paranoid and thinks that every customer has the ulterior motive of stealing their product. Personally I think that treating customers like thieves will make them more open to sharing files. And I then promptly re-name the file with the password included so that I won't have to remember where the password was stored. I haven't always done this and some files have had to stay locked.
Often you only realize a password has been lost at the last minute. So you need to retrieve the password quickly.
There are several ways to get around this problem.
You can give up and hope that there's nothing of importance in the file.
You can tap away using your favorite passwords in the hope that you'll come across the lost password sooner rather than later.
You can get hold of a cheap PDF password recovery program that will do all the hard work for you and will find the lost PDF password for you in a matter of minutes.
Check out one of the best PDF password recovery programs I've found.
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