Remove the password from a bank statement PDF.
On your computer, not ours.
Drop the locked PDF, type the password the bank gave you, download a plain copy that opens, prints and forwards without one. The file and the password never leave your browser.
Drop a password-protected PDF here
Stays on this computer. Nothing is uploaded.
What it does
Your browser opens the PDF with the password, redraws every page, and writes a new PDF with the same page count and page sizes and no encryption. This is the same step the statement converter runs before an upload; here it stops at the download.
The trade-off is that the pages come back as pictures. The new file is right for printing, forwarding to an accountant or attaching to a loan application, and not for copying figures out of. For the figures, convert the statement: you get a spreadsheet with every row checked against the printed opening and closing balances.
Where the password comes from
Banks that email locked statements state the rule in the email: a customer ID, date of birth, part of an account or card number, or a national ID, sometimes combined. Indian banks publish their schemes; the India page lists the common ones. This tool does not guess passwords.
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Questions
Is the PDF or the password sent to your server?
No. The file is opened and rebuilt by JavaScript in your browser tab, and the download is made from memory on your computer. You can confirm this from the network tab of your browser: after the page loads, nothing is transmitted.
Why can I not select text in the new file?
Each page is redrawn as a picture at 144 dots per inch and the pictures are wrapped in a new PDF. That is what makes it work on any statement regardless of how the bank encrypted it, but the text layer is not carried over. If you need the numbers as data rather than a picture, convert the statement instead: the result is a spreadsheet, checked against the printed balances.
It opens fine without a password. Why does the bank say it is protected?
Some banks set an owner password only, which lets the file open but blocks printing or copying. Those files still count as encrypted for many programs. Drop the file here: no password is asked for, and the copy you download has no restrictions.
I do not know the password.
This tool cannot guess or crack one. Banks state the rule in the email that delivered the statement: usually a customer ID, date of birth, part of an account number or a national ID, sometimes combined. The India page lists the schemes the large Indian banks publish.
What if it says the file could not be opened even with the right password?
The PDF may use an encryption method the browser reader does not support, or the file may be damaged. The manual route still works: open the PDF in your viewer, choose Print, and pick Save as PDF or Microsoft Print to PDF as the printer.
Is there a size or page limit?
Files up to 50 MB, any page count. The work is done by your own computer, page by page, so a long statement takes longer on a phone than on a laptop.