Decrypt ******* Verity is managing to decrypt a document which Lucene is unable to. The following blog entry: http://www.searchmorph.com/wp/2005/05/09/use-pdfbox-to-get-text-out-of-locked-pdf-files/ Downloaded and copied to: :: ~\articles\pdfbox\Using PDFBox to get text out of locked PDF files.html This change suggested in this document has already been done in the CVS repository, revision 1.64 of ``org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper``. Building the version in CVS will successfully decrypt my reference document.