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Default Password

MOPA-Chris
Registered: Mar 5 2010
Posts: 2

Background:

We get a lot of PDF sent into our company and generally the PDF's are password protected. Each vender/company/person generally uses the same password for all the PDF they send.
Company A: Password= ABC
Vender B; Password= 12345

Question:

Is there a way or a script that can input or test a set of "Default Passwords?"
In addition to that, still prompt for a password if it doesn't find it?

Note:

I'm not looking for a password cracker or something that will test the whole english dictionary against the file. We know the passwords, we would just like to streemline the process.

smadwin
Expert
Registered: Jul 10 2009
Posts: 40
Hi Chris,

Sadly, there is no way via JavaScript to open a password protected file without user interaction. If you use the app.docOpen ("/path/file.pdf") JavaScript command, and the file is encrypted it will cause the Open Password dialog to appear. There is no way to add the password to the docOpen command as a script parameter.

Sorry,
Steve

Steven Madwin
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