[Sharing] Unlocking Protected PDF - Work in progress

[caltang]

Hi all,

I have been looking for a way to crack open a protected PDF for a specific use case I had and I created a Python solution wrapped into Alteryx in order to do it.

It has done what I needed to do, granted the output of the tool I made needs to be parsed and REGEX-ed accordingly to get certain fields.

Sample of what it can do for my use case - again, it worked only for my use case.

I was hoping to crowdsource this further and make it even better and more dynamic. I am sharing the workflow here to see if anyone would be keen to work together on this and make it free for the community to use.

I am also aware that some teams may frown upon Python usage - not because it's Python, but because there needs to be CI/CDs in place, management of its assets and updating of its packages + testing it. I may be missing some parameters here, but primarily it's a control issue more than a tool thing. If anyone would be keen to comment as well, I'd love your feedback.

Anyway, I have also made some pretty assets for it and I am sure this may be useful to you all.

Best,

Calvin

[NatSnook]

Hi can anyone help me with an example of running this for multiple files each with different password? I have been battling with it for a day  now and it only ever seems to process the first file :(