Forensics of PDF Documents
Content Leader: Jess Garcia - Last Updated: June 13, 2007
General Info
PDF File Reconstruction
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For automated reconstruction you can use the 3-Heights™ PDF Desktop Analysis & Repair Tool tool.
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If you have just fragments of a PDF file, you can try to artificially create the PDF header following the Adobe PDF Specification mentioned above.
Tools
| Tool | OS | Description |
| extract | UNIX | Extracts very basic information from a PDF document metadata |
| pdfinfo | UNIX | Extract a lot of information from PDF document metadata (part of the xpdf-utils package) |
| pdffonts | UNIX | Identifies the fonts used in a PDF document (part of the xpdf-utils package) |
| pdfimages | UNIX | Extracts images from PDF documents (part of the xpdf-utils package) |
| 3-Heights™ PDF Desktop Analysis & Repair Tool | Windows | Analyzes, Repairs and recovers information from irreparable corrupt PDF files |
