This post is part of a series of posts categorized as “Wiki” that contain basic how-to information. The intent is to create a reference repository for myself, but I’m not selfish so if anyone else can also benefit from it then I’m happy to share the knowledge!
- OS: Linux/Windows
- Description: Examine structure of PDF and look at its contents
Helpful Options:
-a stats
-d dump stream contents
-f pass stream through filter
FlateDecode
ASCIIHexDecode
ASCII85Decode
LZWDecode
RunLengthDecode
-H hash objects
-o select object by ID
-s search for string (not streams)
--searchstream search for string in stream
-w raw output from filter