gHacks technology news » pdf password http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:43:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Free PDF Password Recovery for Windows http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/29/free-pdf-password-recovery-for-windows/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/29/free-pdf-password-recovery-for-windows/#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:14:05 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/29/free-pdf-password-recovery-for-windows/ I was inspired by the post at Digital Inspiration which was entitled How to Open Password Protected or Encrypted Adobe PDF Files but only mentioned two programs that were both commercial and no mentioning of free PDF Password Recovery tools. And so began my search for a software that would recover the password for a password protected PDF document.

I did find PDF Crack 0.8 for Windows which is a port of the Linux program PDF Crack. PDF Crack is a command line utility which has been tested with Adobe Reader 7 only. It seems that the project has been discontinued and I had no chance to test if with a PDF document that was created and password protected with Adobe PDF 8. If any of you have the chance to create such a document let me know, I would really like to find out if it is possible to recover those passwords as well.

Run pdfcrack.exe in the command line to receive a list of commands. The default command is pdfcrack.exe -f filename OPTIONS. Cracking a file called abc.pdf without options would be possible with the command pdfcrack.exe -f abc.pdf

The options can be used to load a dictionary file, specify a minimum and maximum length for the password, permutating passwords (currently only uppercase for first letter) or use only the characters specified in a given string as chars for the password.

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