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.
