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But since some of pdf&#8217;s uploaded were password protected.<\/p>\n<p>To handle this scenario we added bouncyCastle.jar , so our version of   iText was able to handle password protected pdf .<br \/>\nAnd Then to check whether pdf is password protected or not  , we used &#8220;Boolean isOpenedWithFullPermission()&#8221; method.<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"groovy\">\r\nPdfReader pdf = PdfReader(\"filePath\")\r\nBoolean editable = pdf.isOpenedWithFullPermissions()\r\n\r\nif(editable){\r\n\/\/attach Cover\r\n}else {\r\n\/\/skip  cover\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>As &#8220;isOpenedWithFullPermissions()&#8221; returns a Boolean variable ,<br \/>\nit was easy for us to recognize whether we would be able to edit (i.e attach cover in our case) depending on its output. 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