if (document.isEncrypted()) {
                                try {
                                        document.decrypt("your password");
                                } catch (InvalidPasswordException e) {
                                        System.err.println("Error: Document is 
encrypted with a different password."); // so, now you know that your password 
is incorrect for your file
                                        System.exit(1);
                                }
                        }

BR,
Ilija.

On 11. 2. 2012., at 01:22, [email protected] wrote:

> How can a java program check to see if a given password is the correct 
> password to open a pdf document?  We have a table that shows what password 
> should have been set as the correct password for a given file.  
> 
> I want to traverse this list of files and figure out which files had the 
> password set correctly and which did not.  I can traverse the table, but what 
> piece of code or what method or methods in PDFBOX will let me check if a 
> particular password is the right document open password?
> 
> Thanks to anyone who can shed any light on this.
> 
> - Frank

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