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Batch PDF Password Remover is an application that aims to remove protection from your PDF documents, promising to do this even if you have lost or forgotten the keys. It offers support for batch processing, which means that it can decrypt two or more PDF files at once.

Setting it up doesn't take long because there are no special options involved or third-party offers available. However, it depends on .NET Framework to work properly, so make sure to have this software framework on your computer.

The interface of Batch PDF Password Remover is clean and intuitive. One or more PDF files can be added to the task list by dragging and dropping the items onto the main window while navigating disk directories in Windows Explorer, or by indicating a folder whose containing PDFs you want to process.

The task list shows the source and destination paths, along with the status of each entry. It's possible to modify the default output folder if you're not satisfied with the default option, change entry order in the list, as well as clear the queue to restart the job from scratch.

The utility doesn't process the original, protected files, leaving them untouched, so there's no need to create backups. A notification message pops up on the screen on task completion to let you know how many files were successfully decrypted and how many failed. The output directory is opened by the tool automatically so that you can launch the files in your PDF viewer and inspect results.

Unfortunately, Batch PDF Password Remover failed in our tests for all password-protected PDFs it attempted to decrypt. The software project is no longer in development and cannot be purchased anymore, but you can still download and test the trial version, which can be used for ten days without any feature limitations.