bchandos

> So the mentioned lines fixed your problem? You could read the decrypted file properly? That is correct. `PdfFileMerger()` can now successfully decrypt the file and merge it with others,...

> The code you use is something like this, I guess: > > ```python > from PyPDF2 import PdfReader > > reader = PdfReader("private-and-encrypted.pdf", password="example") > print(reader.extract_text()) > ``` Here...