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.

WARNING

       Don't  use  pdfcrack  to illegal actions, as crack personal passwords from another people. The local laws
       must be observed when installing and using this program.

AUTHOR

       pdfcrack was written by Henning Noren <confusion42@users.sf.net>.  This manual page was written  by  Joao
       Eriberto  Mota  Filho  <eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>  and  Nacho Barrientos Arias <nacho@debian.org> for the
       Debian project (but may be used by others).

PDFCRACK 0.11                                       Jan 2014                                         PDFCRACK(1)