Printing off password protected pdfs to then scan them in and OCR them.. a paperless method?

To circumvent password protection, I often print off, scan in, then OCR these PDFs to
give me a version I can highlight etc.
My question is this, is there a papeless method to achieve the same ends?
A virtual hardcopy?

Any PDF that can be printed out can be scanned back in...
I am not looking to MODIFY content and then rediffuse it masquerading as the original, my aim is only to find keywords and highlight them visually generating a dataset of pages extracted from multiple PDFs where this word (or term) exists - this "condensate" is then reviewed by the reader (me) thus the desire to see where the words are!
Plagiarism is not my goal, distilling 12,000 pages of documents published online by UK government bodies is..... I am trying to understand where an assumed minimum length of a road surface treatment up to stoplines etc. comes from.
Please don't hesitate not to help me, I can see where you are coming from.

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