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6 pdfresurrect - tool for extracting/scrubbing versioning data from PDF
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10 pdfresurrect file.pdf [-w][-q][-s][-i]
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13 This manual page documents briefly the pdfresurrect command.
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15 pdfresurrect is a tool for extracting/scrubbing versioning data from
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19 A summary of options is included below.
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21 -w Write the PDF versions and summary to disk.
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23 -q Display only the number of versions contained in the PDF.
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25 -s Scrub the previous history data from the specified PDF.
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27 -i Display the creator information from the specified PDF.
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30 The scrubbing feature (-s) should not be trusted for any serious secu‐
31 rity uses. After using this feature, please verify that it in fact
32 zero'd all of the objects that were of concern (those objects that were
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35 This tool relies on the application reading the pdfresurrect extracted
36 versions to treat the last xref(cross-reference) table as the most
37 recent in the document. This should typically be the case.
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39 The verbose output, which tries to deduce the PDF object type (e.g.
40 stream, page), is not always accurate, and the object counts might not
41 be 100% accurate. However, this should not prevent the extraction of
42 the versions. This output is merely to provide a hint for the user as
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45 Object counts might appear off in linearized PDF documents. That is
46 not truly the case, the reason for this is that each version of the PDF
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50 the PDF has a second version that consists of 21 objects. The total
51 number of objects in "version 2" would be 59 + 21 or 80 objects.
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54 pdfresurrect is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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56 Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
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59 pdfresurrect is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
60 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER‐
61 CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
62 Public License for more details.
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64 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
65 with pdfresurrect. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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68 pdfresurrect was originally written by Matt Davis <matt‐
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72 age was contributed by Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>.
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74 This manual page was originally written by Francois Marier <fran‐
75 cois@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
76 This manual page has since been modified by Matt Davis.
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