pdfresurrect - tool for extracting versioning data from PDF documents

       pdfresurrect was originally written by Matt Davis <mattdavis9@gmail.com>.

       The original man page and some additional configure and Makefile  hackage  was  contributed  by  Francois
       Marier <francois@debian.org>.

       This  manual page was originally written by Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>, for the Debian project
       (and may be used by others).  This manual page has since been modified by Matt Davis.

       See the AUTHORS file for a list of other contributors.

                                                September 9, 2022                                PDFRESURRECT(1)

       BSD-3-Clause

       This manual page documents briefly the pdfresurrect command.

       pdfresurrect is a tool for extracting versioning data from PDF documents.

       pdfresurrect - tool for extracting versioning data from PDF documents

       This  tool  relies  on  the  application  reading  the  pdfresurrect extracted versions to treat the last
       xref(cross-reference) table as the most recent in the document.  This should typically be the case.

       The verbose output, which tries to deduce the  PDF  object  type  (e.g.  stream,  page),  is  not  always
       accurate,  and  the  object  counts  might  not  be  100% accurate.  However, this should not prevent the
       extraction of the versions.  This output is merely to provide a hint for the user as  to  what  might  be
       different between the documents.

       Object  counts  might appear off in linearized PDF documents.  That is not truly the case, the reason for
       this is that each version of the PDF consists of the objects that compose the linear portion of  the  PDF
       plus  all of the objects that compose the version in question.  Suppose there is a linearized PDF with 59
       objects in its linear portion, and suppose the PDF has a second version that consists of 21 objects.  The
       total number of objects in "version 2" would be 59 + 21 or 80 objects.

       A summary of options is included below.

       -w     Write the PDF versions and summary to disk.

       -q     Display only the number of versions contained in the PDF.

       -i     Display the creator information from the specified PDF.

pdfresurrect  file.pdf [-w][-q][-i]