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PDFCRACK

NAME
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DESCRIPTION
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REPORTING BUGS
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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 working 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 extent permitted by law.