Using a little-known trick, you can take almost any secured PDF and "unlock" it for further edits and optical character recognition.

A recommended approach to secure your most private documents — whether it’s a PDF, Word file, or Excel spreadsheet — is to lock them with a passcode. While this does help keep sensitive ...

Our Verdict Kofax Power PDF 5 makes it easy to edit, annotate, and secure PDF documents but you have to spend a little more for the advanced version to unlock all its capabilities.