This is a menubar macOS app designed to unlock encrypted PDF automatically using a known list of passwords.
If you receive encrypted PDFs such as bank/credit card/investment statements, you can store a list of their passwords in this app's settings.

Once you turn on "Start PDF Monitoring", it will keep running in the background and will automatically launch on next reboot.
- Download PDF-Unlocker.zip
- Unzip file. It will show
PDF Unlocker.app
. - Drag and drop
PDF Unlocker.app
to yourApplications
folder. - Double click
PDF Unlocker.app
to launch menu bar app. - Click menu bar app icon to access settings to store password and start PDF monitoring.
Since I haven't signed the app, you may see a warning "PDF Unlocker.app" can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software."

Go to System Settings
>> Privacy & Security
>> Security
section.
You will see ""PDF Unlocker.app" was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer."
Click "Open Anyway".

Launch again. This time click "Open".

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- You need to quit and relaunch app after saving settings to start monitoring.
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