Hazel and Protected PDF

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You may find some help in this post

Redoing PDF OCR Issue

If you don’t mind having the password striped altogether you could use qpdf with your Hazel rule. First you’ll need to install qpdf via Homebrew. After that, just add a Do shell script with qpdf --decrypt —password=YOUR_PASSWORD --replace-input $1 Remember to place this command before your OCR command.

I use this to save a local copy of those password-protected PDFs.

I would not recommend this to deal with very sensitive data though. Those items are best dealt with by manually sorting them.