pdfcrack

PDFCRACK(1) General Commands Manual PDFCRACK(1)

NAME

   pdfcrack - Password recovery tool for PDF-files

SYNOPSIS

   pdfcrack [ -f ] FILE [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

   PDFCrack is a tool for recovering passwords and content from PDF-files.

   If  aborted with Ctrl-C or by receiving a SIGINT signal, pdfcrack will automatically save current position. The position will be saved in a file called savedstate.sav in current work‐
   ing directory.

   Mandatory arguments for long options are mandatory for short options too.

OPTIONS

   -b, --bench
          perform benchmark and exit

   -c, --charset=STRING
          Use the characters in STRING as charset

   -w, --wordlist=FILE
          Use FILE as source of passwords to try

   -n, --minpw=INTEGER
          Skip trying passwords shorter than INTEGER

   -m, --maxpw=INTEGER
          Stop when reaching this INTEGER passwordlength

   -l, --loadstate=FILE
          Continue from the state saved in FILE

   -o, --owner
          Work with the ownerpassword

   -u, --user
          Work with the userpassword (default)

   -p, --password=STRING
          Give userpassword to speed up breaking ownerpassword (implies -o)

   -q, --quiet
          Run quietly

   -s, --permutate
          Try permutating the passwords (currently only supports switching first character to uppercase)

   -v, --version
          Print version and exit

REPORTING BUGS

   Via e-mail to Henning Noren <confusion42@users.sourceforge.net> or report on project page at http://pdfcrack.sourceforge.net/

AUTHOR

   Henning Noren

COPYRIGHT

   Copyright © 2009 Henning Noren <confusion42@users.sourceforge.net>
   This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.  There is NO WARRANTY, to  the  ex‐
   tent permitted by law.

User Commands February 2009 PDFCRACK(1)