PDF Repair Tool

PDF file format is widely used for storing digitalized documents. If some PDF files containing import information are broken and unable to open, there may be a big loss to the owner of the PDF files. So PDF Repair Tool may be useful for these people who need to fix their damaged PDF files.

PDF Repair Tool is a handy tool for repairing some damaged PDF files. It has three versions for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. You can run the Mac OS version program in your Mac OS, and the usages and functions of different versions for the operating systems are the same. This article is to present the usage of fixing a damaged PDF in Mac OS.

Download the package of Mac OS version PDF Repair Tool, and you will get a DMG disk image file. Mount or unpack the file, you will see the executable file in sub directory bin. Open a terminal in your Mac OS X and you can run the program.

Basic usage rule of PDF Repair Tool is as the follow

pdftoolbox <input files> [options] <-outfile output>

In string field input, you can specify one or more input files, and in field after option -output, you can specify the name for saving the output file. Field of options is optional for specific operations.

The commands for repairing a damaged PDF are as follows

pdftoolbox damaged.pdf -outfile repaired.pdf

The program pdftoolbox fixes the input file damaged.pdf and saves the new PDF as repaired.pdf.

PDF Repair Tool is not only a repair tool for PDF, but it is also a powerful PDF toolbox. It can merge PDF, split PDF, encrypt PDF, fill PDF forms, and add watermarks to PDF. These functions and options will be displayed when you enter the command pdftoolbox without any option or argument. There are many examples in shell scripts in sub directory test, and you can learn how to use those options of the program.

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