hovren / pdflock

Small Python utility to password protect a PDF file

pdflock - Password protect PDF files

Given an input PDF file, output a password protected version.

Running

Running is as simple as

$ pdflock.py input.pdf output.pdf

To set the password non-interactively, run

$ pdflock.py input.pdf output.pdf --password="my secret"

Installation

This program requires the pyPdf module to be installed.

For Fedora you can install this with yum install pyPdf

Licensing

This program was written by Hannes Ovrén ([e-mail]). It is released under the GNU GPL version 2 license