How to Remove (Adobe) Digital Signature from Pdf
This Follows up My Previous Question: How to Check If Pdf Has Been Digitally Signed? . Just in Doubt a Document Has Been Digitally Signed (E. G. with Adobe)...
This follows up my previous question: How to check if PDF has been digitally signed?.
Just in doubt a document has been digitally signed (e.g. with Adobe), how to remove the signature?
In particular, does "print to file" remove it?
1 Answer
If you've got ghostscript installed try:
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=%stdout% -c .setpdfwrite -f locked.pdf > unlocked.pdf
That would remove signature. If the pdf file has a password, then add parameter:
-sPDFPassword=$PASS
...and password would be disabled.
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