Can't edit PDF. How can I enable editing on a PDF from Windows 10?

Tesseract is an open-source OCR engine used to extract text from PDF files, but it cannot process locked, encrypted files because you can't edit password protected PDF until you remove the document password.

It allows you to perform full-text recognition on PDFs converted to images within the same workflow and reconstruct searchable PDF files, but encrypted documents block the entire processing workflow—meaning you can't edit password protected PDF unless you decrypt the file first, and to use the tool’s full OCR processing workflow, you’ll need additional steps to convert the PDF to images and recombine the files.

First, download and install the software engine on your computer. Prepare auxiliary tools to convert the target PDF file into separate image files.

Open a command prompt and run the software command to perform OCR text recognition on all converted image files. Once text extraction is complete, use the accompanying software to merge the processed text and images back into a complete PDF file.

After the merging is complete, you will obtain a new, editable, and searchable PDF document.

This method cannot automatically decrypt encrypted PDF files, so it is only suitable for users who can remove the PDF password lock in advance.

If you do not want to upload confidential files to a cloud-based OCR platform, you can try using this offline tool. Since this workflow requires command-line operations and the use of additional software, be sure to carefully weigh the pros