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.\" Henning Noren
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.TH PDFCRACK "1" "February 2009" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
pdfcrack \- Password recovery tool for PDF-files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pdfcrack 
[ \fB\-f\fR ]\fR FILE [\fIOPTION\fR]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B PDFCrack 
is a tool for recovering passwords and content from PDF-files.
.PP
If aborted with Ctrl-C or by receiving a SIGINT signal, \fBpdfcrack\fR will automatically save current position. The position will be saved in a file called \fBsavedstate.sav\fR in current working directory.
.PP
Mandatory arguments for long options are mandatory for short options too.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-bench\fR
perform benchmark and exit
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-charset=\fISTRING\fR
Use the characters in \fISTRING\fR as charset
.TP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-wordlist=\fIFILE\fR
Use \fIFILE\fR as source of passwords to try
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-minpw=\fIINTEGER\fR
Skip trying passwords shorter than \fIINTEGER
.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-maxpw=\fIINTEGER\fR
Stop when reaching this \fIINTEGER\fR passwordlength
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-loadstate=\fIFILE\fR
Continue from the state saved in \fIFILE
.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-owner\fR
Work with the ownerpassword
.TP
\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-user\fR
Work with the userpassword (default)
.TP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-password=\fISTRING\fR
Give userpassword to speed up breaking ownerpassword (implies \fB-o\fR)
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
Run quietly
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-permutate\fR
Try permutating the passwords (currently only
supports switching first character to uppercase)
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
Print version and exit
.SH REPORTING BUGS
Via e-mail to Henning Noren <confusion42@users.sourceforge.net> or report on project page at http://pdfcrack.sourceforge.net/
.SH AUTHOR
Henning Noren
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2009 Henning Noren <confusion42@users.sourceforge.net>
.br
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.