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.