ARTICLE AD BOX
I’m trying to unlock a password-protected PDF entirely in the browser using JavaScript (no server).
What I’ve tried:
pdf-lib
PDFDocument.load(bytes, { password }) → throws “Input document is encrypted”
ignoreEncryption: true only works for permission-restricted PDFs, not password-protected ones
Password is correct and works in Chrome / Adobe Reader
Goal is to load the PDF, copy all pages into a new document, and download it without encryption
Question:
Is there any browser-based JavaScript library that can actually decrypt and re-save a password-protected PDF when the password is known, or is this fundamentally not supported in browsers?
