Very often, you may find yourself stuck with a secured PDF that prevents its contents being opened or copied (you plagarists know who you are).  So what do you do? You purchase a software costing $39 from download.com that you use just once. Now, you no longer have to. There’s an online solution in Ensode that lets you access secured contents- without bloating up your PC with more installs.

Okay, bottomline is, some PDF documents prevent the user from copying and pasting or printing it’s contents. With Ensode, this page contains a free online utility that allows you to upload a PDF, once uploaded, a version of the PDF without printing or copying/pasting restrictions is displayed in a new browser window. Pretty cool huh?

To unlock a PDF file, enter it’s location in the “PDF file to unlock” field, by either typing it in the field or clicking on the “browse” button, then navigating to it’s location.

The unlocked version of the PDF will be displayed in a new browser window, opened in the default PDF application for your system (usually Adobe Acrobat Reader)