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pdf-paranoia

Bulk-encrypts and decrypts PDF files. It walks a directory tree, encrypts every unencrypted PDF with a user-supplied password (writing the result i…

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pdf-paranoia

Bulk-encrypts and decrypts PDF files. It walks a directory tree, encrypts every unencrypted PDF with a user-supplied password (writing the result into an untitled folder), and can decrypt the _encrypted PDFs back again.

Example

Enter encryption password: mysecretpass

The script walks the current directory, encrypts every unencrypted .pdf it finds with mysecretpass, and writes the result to untitled folder/ with _encrypted inserted before the extension (e.g. report.pdf becomes untitled folder/report_encrypted.pdf). It then decrypts any _encrypted.pdf files found using the same password, writing the plain copies alongside them.

How to run on localhost

pip install PyPDF2
python pdfParanoia.py

Dependencies

PyPDF2