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Re: Extracting Images from a Password Protected PDF

Dick Margulis <margul...@comcast.net>

faceman28...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I got a PDF document from the government through FOIA. It's about 20
> pages of scanned text.

> I would like to extract the pages and OCR them.

> I tried XPDF to extract the images but it gave me an error saying the
> file was password protected.

> The Feds gave me a password protected PDF and claim they know nothing
> about the password.

> How to proceed?

You could wait until the new administration comes in next January and
ask the Feds again. You might get a friendlier and more helpful answer. <g>

Meanwhile, can't you just print the document, then scan the printed
pages and OCR them?