"""Decrypt PDF paranoia Write a program that finds all encrypted PDFs in a folder (and its subfolders) and creates a decrypted copy of the PDF using a provided password. If the password is incorrect, the program should print a message to the user and continue to the next PDF. Note: * Default input folder is parent directory. * Default output suffix is '_decrypted.pdf'. """ def main(): import PyPDF4, os from PyPDF4.utils import PdfReadError FOLDER = "../" SUFFIX = "_encrypted.pdf" # Get all encrypted PDFs in FOLDER files = [] for folderName, subfolders, filenames in os.walk(FOLDER): for filename in filenames: # If file is in subdirectory, append backslash to folderName if folderName.endswith('/'): filepath = folderName + filename else: filepath = folderName + '/' + filename if filename.lower().endswith(".pdf") and PyPDF4.PdfFileReader(open(filepath, "rb")).isEncrypted: files.append(filepath) # Get password from user password = input("Please input decryption password:\n") # Decrypt all PDFs with password for file in files: pdfReader = PyPDF4.PdfFileReader(open(file, "rb")) pdfReader.decrypt(password) # If incorrect password, print message and continue to next PDF try: pdfReader.getPage(0) except PdfReadError as err: print("PdfReadError: %s" % err) print("Skipping: %s" % file) continue else: # Read decrypted PDF pdfWriter = PyPDF4.PdfFileWriter() for pageNum in range(pdfReader.numPages): pdfWriter.addPage(pdfReader.getPage(pageNum)) # Save decrypted PDF by removing SUFFIX, if present if file.lower().endswith(SUFFIX): newfile = file[:-len(SUFFIX)] + ".pdf" else: newfile = file if os.path.exists(newfile): newfile = newfile[:-4] + "_decrypted.pdf" resultPdf = open(newfile, "wb") pdfWriter.write(resultPdf) resultPdf.close() if __name__ == '__main__': main()