Advanced PDF Password Recovery 5.03

Software developer Elcomsoft has many of your password recovery needs met. If you forgot the password to your favorite instant messaging application, the developer has Advanced Instant Messengers Password Recovery to offer. This easy to use application unlocks IM accounts and recovers forgotten passwords like its no thing. At the time of writing this, the application provides support for more than 70 popular instant messaging clients.

If you forgot the password to a password-protected archive, the developer has Advanced Archive Password Recovery to offer. This application can recover the password and remove the protection of archives created with PKZip, WinZip, RAR and WinRAR.

If you forgot the password to a locked PDF file, Elcomsoft has your back one more time. The developer has the aptly named Advanced PDF Password Recovery application to offer. Here is what you can expect to get from this application, from a functionality point of view:

- Open encrypted and password-protected PDF documents. According to Elcomsoft, its Thunder Tables technology will recover 40-bit keys in under a minute.
- Unlock PDF documents and remove editing, printing and copying restrictions.
- Remove JScript code, form fields and digital signatures (optional)
- All Adobe Acrobat versions and all 3rd party PDF products supported
- Removes “owner” and “user” passwords
- 40-bit and 128-bit RC4 encryption as well as 128-bit and 256-bit AES encryption is supported.
- Perform dictionary or brute force attacks
- Batch mode supported

You must know that there are several Advanced PDF Password Recovery versions at your disposal:
Advanced PDF Password Recovery Standard – supports Adobe Acrobat v. 3.x through 9.x, supports 40-bit RC4, 128-bit RC4, 128-AES, and 256-bit AES encryption, removes restrictions from PDF files, decrypts PDF files if 'open' password is known.
Advanced PDF Password Recovery Pro – does all the things the Standard version does, plus the following: brute force attacks and dictionary attacks on 'open' password, guaranteed recovery for 40-bit encryption), supports multiprocessor, multicore systems, removes digital signatures, Jscript code, and form fields.
Advanced PDF Password Recovery Enterprise – does all the things the previous versions do, plus the following: Guaranteed recovery for 40-bit encryption using Thunder tables. This method, according to Elcomsoft only takes a few minutes. The “guaranteed recovery for 40-bit encryption” in the Pro version takes several days.

Pros

• Unlock PDF documents and remove editing, printing and copying restrictions
• Open encrypted and password-protected PDF documents
• Batch mode

Cons

• Free to try (30-day trial, some features are disabled)

About Elcomsoft
Details on software developer Elcomsoft and its products are available here.

Advanced PDF Password Recovery has been reviewed by George Norman on 03 Sep 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated Advanced PDF Password Recovery 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent