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)