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.