PDFCRACK(1)															       PDFCRACK(1)

NAME

       pdfcrack - PDF files password cracker

SYNOPSIS

       pdfcrack -f filename [options]

DESCRIPTION

       pdfcrack 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.

OPTIONS

       -b, --bench
	      Perform benchmark and exit.

       -c, --charset=STRING
	      Use the characters in STRING as charset.

       -m, --maxpw=INTEGER
	      Stop when reaching INTEGER as password length.

       -n, --minpw=INTEGER
	      Skip trying passwords shorter than INTEGER.

       -l, --loadState=FILE
	      Continue from the state saved in FILENAME.

       -o, --owner
	      Work with the ownerpassword.

       -p, --password=STRING
	      Uses STRING as 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).

       -u, --user
	      Work with the userpassword (default).

       -v, --version
	      Print version and exit.

       -w, --wordlist=FILE
	      Use FILE as source of passwords to try.

AUTHOR

       Written by Nacho Barrientos Arias <chipi@criptonita.com> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

BUGS

       Report bugs to Henning Noren <confusion42@users.sourceforge.net>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  (C) 2006, Henning Noren <confusion42@users.sourceforge.net> - All Rights Reserved. This program is free software; you can redis-
       tribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcrack

pdfcrack 0.8							 october 26, 2006						       PDFCRACK(1)