Combine and split
Add to pages
Theme
File names
IMG_2041.heic
IMG_2041.jpg
Language
Your files and these choices stay on this device.
Conversion settings
Your starting point for new files. You can still change anything before converting.
Convert to
No format matches.
This erases all saved settings, history and cached data, as if you opened the app for the first time.
The document is encrypted with AES-256 and opens only with the password you choose. You can also limit printing, copying and editing.
Drop the PDF you want to protect.
Type a password, or generate one, and choose any limits.
Click Protect PDF and download the file.
Remove the password and limits from a PDF, using the password you already have.
Strip document info and XMP metadata from a PDF.
Stamp text or an image with opacity, rotation and position.
No. Your browser encrypts the PDF on your device. The password is kept in memory only until you close the tab, and it’s never saved or sent.
The file can’t be opened, by you or by fileclay. Keep the password somewhere safe, and keep your original PDF if you may need it.
The password to open encrypts the document: without it, nothing can be read. The permissions password protects the limits on printing, copying and editing. They have to be different, or anyone who can open the file could also lift the limits.
No. Limits are a request that PDF readers honor: Acrobat and most viewers respect them, and some programs ignore them. To keep people out, use a password to open.
AES-256, unless the file has to open in a very old PDF reader. AES-128 is there for those cases, and its passwords are limited to 32 Western characters.
A digital signature stops validating, because encrypting rewrites the file. A PDF/A stops being PDF/A, because that standard doesn’t allow encryption. The pages themselves stay the same.