pdfcrack (1) Linux Manual Page

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 [at] users.sourceforge.net> or report on project page at http://pdfcrack.sourceforge.net/

AUTHOR

Henning Noren

COPYRIGHT

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.

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