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Man page for pdfcrack

Copyright (c) 2009, Henning Noren

You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as specified in the README file that comes with the pdfcrack
distribution.

Henning Noren
confusion42@users.sourceforge.net

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/pdfcrack.1".)

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 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 <www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.