3.0

ABBYY® PDF Transformer 3.0 User’s Guide
PDF Security Settings
When creating a PDF document, you can create passwords that will prevent the PDF document from unauthorized opening, printing
or editing.
You can specify a Document Open Password or/and Permissions Password.
Document Open Password
A Document Open Password prevents users who do not know the password from opening the PDF document.
To set a Document Open Password:
1. Select Restrict opening.
2. In the Restrict PDF Opening dialog box, type a password and then re–type it to confirm.
The specified password will be displayed as a series of dots in the Password field.
Permissions Password
A Permissions Password prevents the users who do not know the password from printing and editing the PDF document.
To set a Permissions Password:
1. Select Restrict editing and printing.
2. In the Restrict PDF Editing & Printing dialog box, type a password and then re–type it to confirm.
The specified password will be displayed as a series of dots in the Password field.
You can also enable or disable printing, editing, or copying your PDF document. These restrictions are set under Permissions
settings.
● Select Document printing if you wish to prevent the document from being printed out.
● Select Document editing if you wish to prevent the document from being edited.
● Select Extracting text and pictures from the document if you wish to prevent the user from copying text, images, etc. from
the document.
● Select Commenting and filling out forms in the document if you wish to prevent the user from adding comments or PDF
forms to the document.
To change a previously set password, click Change
Bates Stamping
With ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0, you can Bates–stamp your documents when creating PDF files. Bates stamping makes archive
searches much easier.
If you Bates–stamp a document for the first time:
1. In Bates Stamping, select Enable Bates Stamping.
2. In the window that opens, in the Profile name field, type a name for your newly created profile.
3. Specify Bates stamping options:
● Parameters
Select one or more options:
● Insert Bates Number
You can add a unique number to each page in the document or to the entire document. Numbering will start from the
number you specify. When processing more than one document, numbering will continue.
By default, numbering starts from 0001 and numbers are added to documents, not to pages. To change the default value,
click Set number
● Insert Date
The Bates numbering text will include the date on which your PDF document was created.
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