NAME

       pdfresurrect - tool for extracting versioning data from PDF documents

SYNOPSIS

       pdfresurrect  file.pdf [-w][-q][-i]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the pdfresurrect command.

       pdfresurrect is a tool for extracting versioning data from PDF documents.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -w     Write the PDF versions and summary to disk.

       -q     Display only the number of versions contained in the PDF.

       -i     Display the creator information from the specified PDF.

NOTES

       This  tool  relies on the application reading the pdfresurrect extracted versions to treat
       the last xref(cross-reference) table as the most recent  in  the  document.   This  should
       typically be the case.

       The  verbose output, which tries to deduce the PDF object type (e.g. stream, page), is not
       always accurate, and the object counts might not be 100% accurate.  However,  this  should
       not  prevent  the extraction of the versions.  This output is merely to provide a hint for
       the user as to what might be different between the documents.

       Object counts might appear off in linearized PDF documents.  That is not truly  the  case,
       the  reason  for this is that each version of the PDF consists of the objects that compose
       the linear portion of the PDF plus  all  of  the  objects  that  compose  the  version  in
       question.   Suppose  there  is a linearized PDF with 59 objects in its linear portion, and
       suppose the PDF has a second version that consists of 21 objects.   The  total  number  of
       objects in "version 2" would be 59 + 21 or 80 objects.

COPYRIGHT

       BSD-3-Clause

AUTHORS

       pdfresurrect was originally written by Matt Davis <mattdavis9@gmail.com>.

       The  original  man page and some additional configure and Makefile hackage was contributed
       by Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>.

       This manual page was originally written by Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>, for  the
       Debian  project  (and may be used by others).  This manual page has since been modified by
       Matt Davis.

       See the AUTHORS file for a list of other contributors.

                                        September 9, 2022                         PDFRESURRECT(1)