PDF Files

• pdfinfo - Website

  A command-line tool to get a basic synopsis of what the PDF file is.

  # Extract all javascript from a PDF file
  pdfinfo -js input.pdf

• pdf-parser - Website

  Parse a PDF file and extract the objects.

  # Extract stream from object 77
  python pdf-parser.py -o 77 -f -d out.txt input.pdf

• qpdf - GitHub

  A command-line tool to manipulate PDF files. Can extract embedded files.

• pdfcrack - Website

  A command-line tool to recover a password from a PDF file. Supports dictionary, wordlists, and bruteforce.

• pdfimages - Website

  A command-line tool, the first thing to reach for when given a PDF file. It extracts the images stored in a PDF file, but it needs the name of an output directory (that it will create for) to place the found images.

• pdfdetach - Website

  A command-line tool to extract files out of a PDF file.