Protecting your exported PDF document using a password

ABBYY FineReader PDF allows you to use a password to protect exported PDF documents using a password.

You can choose to require different passwords for the following actions:

  • opening a PDF document,
  • printing and copying the contents of a PDF document.

To protect your exported PDF documents using a password, do the following:

  1. Open an OCR project or create a new one.
  2. Click the Export button or select Export... in the File app menu.
  3. Navigate to the PDF tab, modify the export settings if required, and click Next....
  4. In the dialog box that opens specify:
      • A name for the file.
      • Storage location.
      • One of the three saving options: save all pages to one file, save each page to a separate file, or save each source file to a separate file.

  5. Click Security Settings....
  6. Specify the required passwords and click OK.
  7. Click Export.

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