Detect password protected PDFs

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Detect password protected PDFs Tue Oct 15, 2019 12:06 am • by Kazza
Hi

Is there any way to determine if a PDF file is password protected ?

I've tried about 6 or 7 attributes (like security, encryption, permission etc), but they are all blank.

Do I have to use some Scripting to work it out?

Any clues gratefully received.

Thanks!
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Re: Detect password protected PDFs Tue Oct 15, 2019 10:41 am • by Mr_Noodle
This is something I got from another user recently. At least for the PDF files I have here, there is a "Security" attribute that is set to "Password Encrypted". I suggest filtering on that to see if that works for you.
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Re: Detect password protected PDFs Sun Oct 20, 2019 7:18 pm • by Kazza
Thanks - that seems to work!
The strange thing is that when I inspected that item (in Hazel) that field appeared empty. But now that I know what to test for its all good.

thanks!
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