NAME

       pdfresurrect - tool for extracting versioning data from PDF documents

SYNOPSIS

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

       -s     Scrub the previous history data from the specified PDF.

       -i     Display the creator information from the specified PDF.

NOTES

       The  scrubbing  feature  (-s)  should not be trusted for any serious security uses.  After
       using this feature, please verify that it in fact zero'd all of the objects that  were  of
       concern.

       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

       pdfresurrect 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,  either
       version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       pdfresurrect  is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
       without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  PURPOSE.
       See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with pdfresurrect.
       If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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.

                                          March 20, 2010                          PDFRESURRECT(1)