How to Disable Copy Paste on your PDF

1. How to Disable Copy Paste to PDFs

2. PDFs are safe PDF files are certainly secure and the safest way to distribute data online. This is so because PDFs have the ability to contain security and encryption using passwords or using certificates. 2

3. How to Protect PDF Other tools call it PDF Password or Encryption – no matter what it’s called, it’s simply protecting your PDF. This is simply done by adding an owner’s password or an open password to the file. 3

4. Open Passwords Open passwords are those that are required before the reader gets to view the data. While this will keep unwanted eyes, this type of password would still allow the authorized reader to print, copy, or highlight the contents of the document. 4

5. Owner’s Password The owner’s password, on the other hand, doesn’t require a password upon opening the PDF but will be required once the reader tries to do something with the file. Modifications of the owner’s password can depend on the author’s preference and can be set only on those actions deemed necessary. For instance, if the author only wants to restrict printing and copying of data, then a password may be required for printing and copying but not when readers try to modify, fill out forms, annotate or comment, insert, delete, and rotate pages. 5

6. What if you don’t want a password on a PDF

7. Another Method Adding encryption may be great but it doesn’t quite fit the online market. If you want this file to be available to everyone online but need it to copy proof, then another method can be used. This is technique is done by turning your machine-readable file into an image-only PDF file. 7

8. What is an Image-only file An image-only PDF file is defined as the scanned or the photographed image of your file’s content. It does not have a text layer and therefore cannot be searched, copied, modified or marked-up like your normal PDF. Normally, we get these types of PDFs when we scan a document or when we convert images into PDF. 8

9. The Long Way Here’s how to convert and turn your machine- readable file into an image-only file. It will require a printer, a scanner or a camera. 9

10. “ How to convert your PDF First Print your PDF file Scan your printed file or take a photo of it. If you are using a scanner, you can set it to get a PDF output instead of JPEG. But if you are taking a photo of the document, you can convert the image into a PDF using DeftPDF tools. Second Go to DeftPDF.com to convert the image by uploading it to the JPG to PDF tool, processing, and downloading the new PDF file. Now your file is an image-only PDF. Third 10

11. If you don’t have a scanner or a printer

12. Another Way If you don’t have a scanner or a printer, there’s another work around to create and convert your file into an image-only PDF 12

13. Step One Go to DeftPDF.com and select PDF to JPG tool 13

14. Step Two Convert and download your new JPG file. 14

15. Step Three Insert the file on any Word processing application and save it as a PDF. 15

16. NOTE: It would also be awesome if you converted it to PDF using our tools at DeftPDF however since your file was originally a machine-readable file, our PDF converter may automatically convert it back with a text layer - hence, our recommendation to insert it as an image on Word. 16

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