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remove password from pdf file using ghostscript
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gs-xpswd
# Ghostscript command to remove the password from an encrypted pdf document.
# Replace ENCRYPTED.pdf with the path to your password protected pdf file.
# The unencrypted file is created as OUTPUT.pdf in the same directory.
# Install Ghostscript on the Mac with brew install gs
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=OUTPUT.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f ENCRYPTED.pdf
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