Just got the latest version and must thank Ovis, both for helping me out everytime I forget my password, which is just about everytime I change boot drives, and for listening to my suggestions.

You can now decide where and how to tag the recovered file, and to confirm only once that you have permission to recover.

My only outstanding request is to batch recover.

I use this to unlock and remove unwanted crud from a regular periodical I subscribe to. It has periodically also let me rescue graphics from clients jobs and locate font names and other pdf issues.

Very, very useful and reliable. Thank you again Ovis!

I don't really understand how it works to recover pdf free as I forget the password (not familiar to Automator)

I bought a license of PDF Recover and the same day it worked as advertised. I needed to unlock some documents I forgot the general password.

Unfortunately, 2 weeks after when I need to use it again, I am now in demo mode. Impossible to register it again : maximum number of activated licenses reached, no further activations possible, please order more licenses in our webshop !!!!!!

What ??? You have to spend $26 every 2 weeks ???????

No answer to emails so far and the voicemail is in german language...

So far, very frustrating experience.... (bad?)

I now see that others had the exact same problem of registration, may be I should have read them before and not buy this application...

In the meantime I actually replaced my hard drive, but any well written application (all the others I work with so far) should be able to handle hardware changes !!

I too had problems with broken registration but Ovis quickly fixed it for me. When I move to my new iMac I'll have to get them to assist me again.

It is not very smooth in operation. You have to drag each pdf into the window and click a confirmation, but despite that it does the job.

Nice would be batch processing and to nominate how it renames unlocked files. because it puts a tilde in front of the name, you have to hunt for the copy somewhere else up the top of the folder.

I have just purchased online downloadable version of pdf-Recover from Ovis website. Paid by credit card and entered activation info into the downloades earlier today demo, just as stated on invoice page. Activated and all went OK.

Then I checked About - and it shows version 2.0 (2.0.1), not version 3.0 as it should be. So, I thought that maybe demo version is just 2 and I have downloaded package from link provided on my invoice.

Reinstalled and problems - it started in Demo mode regardless successful activation just few minutes earlier. So, I went to Registration, filled blanks and hit Activate - after about a minute activation was denied showing error message telling me that I must buy another license as I exceeded number of allowed activations... And of course newly downloaded version from link on my invoice still shows version 2, not 3....

What gives????!!!!

Not only that I was ripped off by getting version 2 instead of version 3 but I was denied activation after reinstalling software.

Reinstallation and reactivation on the same machine should not be a problem as many of us for one or another reason reinstall OS and applications.

Shame to Ovis / UNIVERSE Software GmbH - I want working version 3, be able to activate it on the same machine every time I need to reinstall it or I want my money back - I feel reallt cheated by German company today...