.TH PDFCRACK 1 "October 26, 2011" "pdfcrack 0.11" ""
.SH NAME
\fBpdfcrack \- PDF files password cracker
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBpdfcrack\fP -f \fIfilename\fP [\fIoptions\fP]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBpdfcrack\fP is a simple tool for recovering passwords from pdf-documents. It should be able to handle all pdfs that uses the standard security handler but the pdf-parsing routines are a bit of a quick hack so you might stumble across some pdfs where the parser needs to be fixed to handle.
.SH OPTIONS
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\fB\-b, --bench\fP
Perform benchmark and exit.
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\fB\-c\fP, \fB--charset=\fP\fISTRING\fP
Use the characters in \fISTRING\fP as charset.
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\fB\-m\fP, \fB--maxpw=\fP\fIINTEGER\fP
Stop when reaching \fIINTEGER\fP as password length.
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\fB\-n\fP, \fB--minpw=\fP\fIINTEGER\fP
Skip trying passwords shorter than \fIINTEGER\fP.
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\fB\-l\fP, \fB--loadState=\fP\fIFILE\fP
Continue from the state saved in \fIFILENAME\fP.
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\fB\-o, --owner\fP
Work with the ownerpassword.
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\fB\-p\fP, \fB--password=\fP\fISTRING\fP
Uses STRING as userpassword to speed up breaking ownerpassword (implies -o).
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\fB\-q, --quiet\fP
Run quietly.
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\fB\-s, --permutate\fP
Try permutating the passwords (currently only supports switching first character to uppercase).
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\fB\-u, --user\fP
Work with the userpassword (default).
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\fB\-v, --version\fP
Print version and exit.
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\fB\-w\fP, \fB--wordlist=\fP\fIFILE\fP
Use \fIFILE\fP as source of passwords to try.
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Nacho Barrientos Arias <chipi@criptonita.com> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
.SH BUGS
Report bugs to Henning Noren <confusion42@users.sourceforge.net>.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2006, Henning Noren <confusion42@users.sourceforge.net> \- All Rights Reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcrack