Crassinnola
Technical User
I have about 3000 medical records/forms. Each is saved as a PDF with security enabled. The Permissions for each PDF, found in the Document Properties, are:
Printing: Allowed
Changing the Document: Not Allowed
Document Assembly: Not Allowed
Content Copying: Not Allowed
Content Copying for Accessibility: Allowed
Page Extraction: Not Allowed
Commenting: Not Allowed
Filling of Form Fields: Not Allowed
Signing: Not Allowed
Creation of Template Pages: Not allowed
What I'd like to do with all of these documents is: create small thumbnails (200 px wide or so) so that I can create an online master catalog of the documents.
I would ordinarily do this using a batch operation in Photoshop with an Action that just opens the first page of the PDF, resizes/resamples it from its high res/printing size down to 200 pix @ 72 dpi, then do Save For Web and make it an optimized jpg.
This would be a super simple task, EXCEPT:
The passworded Permissions on each file require that the password be entered in order to open each one.
Now, I could still set up the batch, then sit here for a day and a half entering the password over and over again each time the batch tries to open the next PDF. Um, yeah, not exactly efficient.
Does anybody know of a way that Photoshop can get around the restrictions on a password protected pdf so that I can create thumbnail images of these 3000 PDFs?
Printing: Allowed
Changing the Document: Not Allowed
Document Assembly: Not Allowed
Content Copying: Not Allowed
Content Copying for Accessibility: Allowed
Page Extraction: Not Allowed
Commenting: Not Allowed
Filling of Form Fields: Not Allowed
Signing: Not Allowed
Creation of Template Pages: Not allowed
What I'd like to do with all of these documents is: create small thumbnails (200 px wide or so) so that I can create an online master catalog of the documents.
I would ordinarily do this using a batch operation in Photoshop with an Action that just opens the first page of the PDF, resizes/resamples it from its high res/printing size down to 200 pix @ 72 dpi, then do Save For Web and make it an optimized jpg.
This would be a super simple task, EXCEPT:
The passworded Permissions on each file require that the password be entered in order to open each one.
Now, I could still set up the batch, then sit here for a day and a half entering the password over and over again each time the batch tries to open the next PDF. Um, yeah, not exactly efficient.
Does anybody know of a way that Photoshop can get around the restrictions on a password protected pdf so that I can create thumbnail images of these 3000 PDFs?