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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
–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
- perform benchmark and exit
Reporting Bugs
Via e-mail to Henning Noren <confusion42 [at] users.sourceforge.net> or report on project page at http://pdfcrack.sourceforge.net/Author
Henning NorenCopyright
Copyright © 2009 Henning Noren <confusion42 [at] 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.