If you own a personal laptop, it is likely that you have saved your important PDF certificates/files on the device. These could be your educational certificates or your important work documents with sensitive information. Now, there may be situations when you have to share your laptop with another family member or a friend, but you don’t want them to access your saved PDFs.
Protecting them with a password can encrypt PDF files. Everytime you want to open the PDF file, one must enter the password to get access. Adobe has a paid tool that can help you password protect your PDFs. The tool is called Adobe Acrobat. Using it, you can encrypt any PDF with simple steps.
In case you wish to password protect your PDF files for free, there is a workaround that will work. Only prerequisite is that the PDF file has to be exported from a Word document for the hack to work. You can use any online OCR tool to convert your PDF to a Word file first. Once you have done that, follow the steps mentioned below
Open the MS word document on your computer/laptop
Click on File and Choose ‘Save As’. Select where you want to save the file.
Now, choose PDF (*.pdf) from the Save as type dropdown
Here, click on ‘Options’ button
This will open a mini tab. Click on the ‘Encrypt the document with a password option’ and then click OK
Enter and re-enter the password for the file and click Ok
The file is now protecting by the password and can only be opened only after entering the correct one.
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