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Automatically Add Password to PDF using Workflows

2 min read
PDF4me Team

Data security is always been a concern since the day communication has been happening. How much ever we securely store the data, it’s always a good idea to add an additional security to it. When it comes to business documents, confidential documents in particular, it’s always a good idea to protect them with a password. This can be automated with PDF4me's automation Platform, Workflows.

Protect your important PDF files with a password and save them to cloud storage. Protection of the PDF file and privacy is needed in every possible instance of data transfer. Adding a Password to PDf is a reliable way to ensure the files are tamper-proof. PDF4me Protect PDF action in Workflows helps you to set a password to a PDF file on the go.

How to automate add Password to PDF?​

To automate this workflow, let us begin by creating a new workflow from the PDF4me Dashboard.

Create new Workflow interface

Add a trigger to start your Workflow​

Add a trigger to kick-start your automation. Currently, Workflows provide 2 triggers.

Dropbox and Google Drive. For e.g. let us create a Google Drive trigger. Configure the connection and choose the folder where the input files are expected.

Google Drive trigger for PDF4me Workflows

Add the Protect PDF action​

Add the Protect PDF action to add the desired password to all your PDF files. Configure the password in the action.

Protect PDF action from PDF4me Workflows

Add a Save to action​

The output files need to be saved back to cloud storage. In our use case let us configure a Save to Google Drive action.

Save to google Drive action from PDF4me Workflows