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PDFCRACK(1) | General Commands Manual | PDFCRACK(1) |
NAME¶
pdfcrack - Password recovery tool for PDF-filesSYNOPSIS¶
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 NorenCOPYRIGHT¶
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.
February 2009 | User Commands |