One of our clients has two of his PDF files corrupted. Trying to open the file from Acrobat Reader, and all you get is an error message prompting you “There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired.” Since those PDF files were previously saved into the document management system that I designed, somehow it became my responsibility to return sanity to his files.
Anyway, the customers are always right.
So I began my request repairing these corrupted PDF files. Being an Open Source die-hard, obviously I would give FOSS solutions a try first. Both Google and Yahoo search revealed nothing. All the existing command-line ghostscript or pdf2blah bark at those files, telling me that cross-reference table cannot be rebuild, and nothing can be extracted out.
pdftk
Then through a forum I was referred to pdftk — the PDF toolkit. The main functionality is for merging and splitting multiple PDF files, but it also claims to “repair corrupted PDF (where possible)”.
It turns out, where possible means, most of the time it is not possible. It failed to open the file with very minimal error message, let along repairing it. Since pdftk is GPL’ed, I thought I might be able to put more debugging information to figure out what exactly were wrong with these corrupted files. Then it turns out it is actually developed in Java and needs gcj to compile. Too much work to have the build environment set up — so I gave up.
Solution
Update: I realised that publishing something like this is probably not good to the commercial companies behind some of these PDF repair software. I still have the content encrypted to me for my own reference.
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Update again: The said vendor has already fixed up their program to prevent copying out repaird PDF from evaluation version of the software. Good on them, and sorry I do not have a copy of older version of that program (thus no need to ask me about it).
Verdict
So in the end I managed to repair those two corrupted PDF files and kept the client happy, using just evaluation version of a commercial software. And about making a crippled evaluation version — there is little point crippling the application as there might be trivial ways getting around it. Cripple your output to annoy potential customers, and they might buy your software if they are desperate enough.
Thanks a lot!
Saved me a lot of time.
Cheers
the link is http://www.pdf-repair.com/
Hi,
great tip, I tried this in a Win2k environment using office XP and there was no temp folder under %username%\local settings. I had show hidden files and folders checked but no luck. I then searched under temp and it appeared under here but as a .tmp file which couldnt be opened even with setting up a file association and renaming the relevant file. Have the PDF Repair people latched onto your scheme and amended the software ? or am I just being an imbecile ?
Thanks
LcF & Jeryn — yes I did include the link. Just under the wrong heading.
Spikey — I am using WinXP Pro and I am only here sharing my discovery. I am sure Advanced PDF Repair people should stop putting temporarily file in “well know” places, or even rely on temporarily files. On Posix based system you can delete temp files while it is opened by another process (thus hiding it from scavengers like me), but not sure how it can be achieved under Windows.
On the other hand, method used by PDF Desktop Repair people seem to have worked on me.
Still works :)
Name of folder depends on your language version.
Try to find “Temp” with hidden files on :)
Gee thanks mate, I should bookmark this specific post. Might come in handy in the nearby future!
Nice blog.I like this.
Nick
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After running the repair process choose the Show Recovered Document option.
You will now find the recovered PDF in your default TEMP files folder.
To find your default TEMP files folder follow these steps;
Go to a DOS prompt in Windows.
Type SET TEMP and press Enter
You will see your default folder for TEMP files shown on the command line.
Ex: C:\TEMP
Before you open the preview the file is in the TEMP folder but has a .TMP extension.
You can rename the file to .PDF and open it.
When you close the preview the file is deleted.
I tried it with one corrupt file but all that was shown in the repaired version was the first page and the Bookmarks. I tried this was using Acrobat Reader 7.05
I tried it with a non-corrupt file and the ‘fixed’ version was fine.
Neither file would display in the built in viewer.
Well done on the advanced pdf soloution.
Would have paid them 20 or 30 bucks for it but its not worth 300
Thank’s to your tip I know manage to recover my file :-).
For all of those who are having problems locating the file the file name is always like this TMPXXX.pdf ( XXX stands for some radom number..) so if your Operating System you just need to go to the folder with Recover viewer open and you see the file if you havinf problems to find the folder just try to search that kinda file.
Note: try to put the properties of the folders to show hidden folders…
cheers
Correction: name of the File TMPXXL.pdf (XX random number L – random Letter…
Post correction: (…) Operating System windows XP you just (…)
Hey great tip! Thanks a lot!
Hi!
It’s been a great help. Thanks for sharing your discovery. By the way, do you have any idea how to repair corrupted .wmv & .mpeg files? My files were working before my hard disk crashed, and using a recovery tool I was able to recover the files but this time Windows Media Player & QuickTime can no longer play the files.Any suggestion? Thanks in advance.
Looks like Advanced PDF repair now stops you from viewing as well as saving.
I guess they removed this from the eval version to stop people from getting hold of the repaired PDF.
I’d doubt that, because they have last updated their eval version 08-4-2005. I’ll let you know if it still works though, repairing at the moment. Slow as hell if compared to “3 Heights PDF Desktop Repair Tool”
Yep, the temp file was found from
F:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Temp\TMP25.pdf
Works just fine, thanks for the tip Scott!
Hello Sir,
It is good to see you are using our solutions and are satisfied with the results. But it is very unfortunate to know that you are not appreciating our efforts in developing such wonderful softwares. You yourself are software engineer and would know how it feels when someone steals and uses your software and does not credit you for your efforts. We would appreciate if you rectify your mistake of misusing the software and buy a license from our firm. We would be more glad if you appreciate our services and solutions and not propogate how to misuse them.
Thank You.
P.S. : Did you recieved a letter like this from advance repair ? if not do you, would you like to recieve it ? No, then contact me thugee@IPC420.com
I agree with my colleague at Advanced PDF Repair. I don’t understand why someone would complain that an EVALUATION VERSION has a watermark, preventing the repaired file from being sent to a customer. We have years of development invested in our tools, and we don’t give them away for free. It’s great that you find the 3-Heights PDF Desktop Repair Tool to be fast and efficient, and we hope that you will see the benefit of purchasing the tool. The time spent searching for an “illegal” back-door costs more that the tool itself ($120.00), your repaired file will have been legally obtained, and you can continue to use the tool and benefit from updates. There’s a reason why there are no free PDF repair tools and very few commercial repair tools – it’s a highly complex technology.
If you are interested in purchasing the 3-Heights PDF Desktop Repair Tool, please visit our website (http://www.pdf-tools.com). Should you have any questions about the product, I hope you will contact us: pdfsales@pdf-tools.com.
Thank you for your honesty.
Thanks for your comments, guys from both PDF Tools and Advanced PDF.
I am not complaining about having water mark on the resulting PDF, or not being able to save the PDF back. However, personally I cannot justify paying $120 for a utility tool that I possibly will only use once. I know the money you pay covers a life-time usage — but it does not suit me as PDF corruption rarely (if at all) happens to me. How about changing your business model to set up on-line PDF repair that charges $5 per document repaired? Then I’ll happily get it done that way.
On the other hand, I do admit that showing a hack to bypass evaluation copy of commercial software is not ethical, and I initially did it as an amusing discovery (but Google is good at picking up these stuff). I will remove this article later today.
Regards,
This is a very useful post indeed. Thanks a lot to all those concerned for sharing such useful information. I was trying all possible things I can do to fix a problem with a pdf file one of my clients had for the past 10 days. Only this page gave me the tips to fix that file.
Sorry to report that I tried pdf toolkit and found that it only gave me blank pages with their watermark on them ! It didn’t work at all !
I would just like to say that this was very helpful. I had an ebook that was corrupt which I had never encountered before so I was shocked to find out that a tool to fix this was $300. I have 100′s of ebooks and have never had this problem. So, anyways this totally works. You dont even have to preview the document when its done just snatch your file out of the temp folder rename it an voila! If your having trouble finding the temp file just have the temp folder open when the program starts it will pop up. Thanks SOOOOO much. BTW the file that I had that was corrupt was: The 48 laws of power by Robert Greene best book in the world next to the Bible :)
Hi,
thank you very much for your hint! It still works. I also tried PDF Tools, but it often said my pdf file wouldn’t be corrupted. Advanced PDF, however, worked in many cases.
If all else fails and you cannot find the temp file, simply save the log file that is created, and then open it in notepad. It will tell you exactly where your temp file was generated.
Thanks for the tip… almost got out my credit card.
Does the above method work still. I am unable to find the temp file. I have windows xp. Pls notify me of solution
I think it’s no longer working anymore. I have just downloaded the program and tried out everything that I could, and the only thing I got is the summary tree of your corrupted PDF, that’s all…
Of course it could be argued that charging over $100 for a program that should cost $50, mainly because they know that the buyer is in a bind is gouging, if not unethical.
Program did not fix my pdf(even though it said it did, also unethical) so I won’t be paying the $120 or even $2 for this program.
J
PS: I did not try the hack.
$130 for a software repairing a PDF is too must to ask for. I am trying to repair a $10 ebook which got corrupted while downloading and there is no way I am going to spend my money in buying that software which says that the “file can be repaired but you have to buy it”. The better thing would have been if they just provide the service online for 99 cents for one repair.
Regards
Moderator – http://www.coders2020.com
Hello,
guys just a quick help.
You have a pdf file corrupted the name is test.pdf size 33 MB
use this program link is give above http://www.pdf-repair.com/
it will let you know that the file will be only showed to you and not actualy recovered but don’t worry let it fix the file
based on your system
(ie XP) find your temp folder (try show hidden files enabled)
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Temp\TMPxxx.tmp
remember the size of your original file
check for
TMPXXX.tmp which the size is 33 MB (or your original pdf file)
Copy it to some where safe LIke your my documents or any back up drive
if you know how to rename an extension of file just rename the file name to
yourfilename.pdf
and youare all set open it and enjoy
if you don’t know how to rename the file extension just right click and say open with arcobat reader.
hope that helps.
still works! and its great!!!
to get to your temp dir do either:
Start, run, %temp%, ok
or
Windows key + r, %temp%, ok
Happy day to you all…
Nice work Scott,
Found you second in Google search only to said PDF repair application. Thanks go to Google for finding you and many thanks to you for your article.
I’m an application developer and programmer (rookie) , in house, for my employer so, to a degree I can appreciate the commercial developer’s gripes about reaping reward for their work. However, I believe that if a product is offered to the consumer at a price that is less imposing, the take up rate for the licensed product should go up. Using the age old reference of Time = Money, the less money you, the consumer, have to shell out to get the solution to a problem, the less time you’ll spend trying to circumvent built in protection features. Surely win – win situation. People are strange creatures, they generally have an aversion to being held to ransom.
Good suggestion noted in previous comments about the ad-hoc service, $5 to send in dead PDF and get back repaired one. Set it up with a model to include PayPal and there’s a gold mine in the making.
I have to say straight up that if not for the dedication of the programming community (and yes, the hacking community too) , I would have never entertained the thought of venturing into the world of software development. 90% of my reference sources come from the folks who share their knowledge freely on the web. Through this willingness to share, 1 more crazy soul can be added to the statistics bucket titled “Programmer”! Thanks to you all.
Finally, thanks Scott for this article, with what I gained from here I was able to revive an alphabet soup PDF, critical study material for the final unit of my friend’s MBA. I’m sure he’ll be stoked with the result.
Cheers, Damo
‘The Big Rock south of Melbourne’
PS. No crack, hack, serial, registry fix or decompile etc was used on any commercial PDF product…. Results achieved with a thorough understanding of the Windows operating system, a little curiosity and some really good coffee!
Does this solution work with all PDF repair programs?
I am trying PDF Recovery
I tried Advanced PDFR but it did not recover the file fully, the temp folder thing worked though
Thank you Thank you Thank you.
This worked perfectly. The corrupted document was 50+ pages and contained all of my notes! I agree with the posters above who suggest paying $1.00 or $5.00 per document. I would have gladly done that. Over $100 is just too much.
Great fix and so grateful for all the comments that helped find the temp file!
I totally understand the companies viewpoints, it’s great software but as a consumer I couldn’t agree more with charge a fee per PDF that needs to be fixed. I would have gladly paid even $30 for the fix on this one file, but the 30 minutes I invested in finding and completing the fix does not translate to $120. This is the first occurence of a PDF file having to be repaired in years of working with them all the time.
Do note that the guys at PDF Tools have now created an online application at
http://www.pdf-online.com/
where you can have your corrupted PDF fixed with a per-document charge — 5 euro per document base + 0.05 euro per page.
The new official site of Advanced PDF Repair changes to http://www.datanumen.com/apdfr/ , but you still can find the recovered pdf file in the temporary directory with the latest version. :)
This no longer works. Only the first page is in the recovered .tmp file and the index.
As I tried repairing my pdf with the demo version of Advanced PDF Repair, I got two messages, the first one saying I’ll only get a preview of my repaired pdf file, and the second saying the program failed to repair my file. Is this second message part of the temp file trick? Then I couldn’t find TMPXXX.tmp in my temp files. I figure it’s because APDFR hasn’t succeeded in creating it?
I tried two pdf repair tools none of them works
MAny MAny thanks. Your idea was spot on. Thanks again
You are rocking guys. Using temp folder is an excellent method. It works fine. Thanks a lot.
using Advanced pdf repair 2 Found the generated pdf in C:\Users\qorsmond\AppData\Local\Temp
Brilliant, still works, thanks a lot. Best bit of advice I’ve seen on the web for a while.
Still finding recovered pdf in temp folder works!! You just need to go to start–>run and type %temp% .You will find the pdf file in there.
Great bit of advise
I found this after I had successfully used the trick (which is now unreadable anyway). The repaired file even appeared directly in my Temp folder as a regular .pdf file.
It took my about 5 minutes to do it, and I agree with some here who say that paying a license for such software that you only use once in a lifetime does not make sense.
Further, reacting to the developer’s comments, I’d like to say that the “highly complex technology” that is behind the product (Advanced PDF Repair, that is) is not a credible argument. How would you guys be doing “highly complex” things and simply show a preview using the regular ActiveX reader and a temporary file ? Unless you are incredibly good in the PDF domain and extremely bad at everything else, don’t state it’s such a complex thing.
Certainly it’s a thing most people don’t even want to dive in (because you can just tell your customer “please learn how to generate a PDF and come back to me afterwards”) but this is not rocket science.
If you really want to protect your business, go for the on-line, pay-per-use model. Here nobody can “steal” your “technology”. Or don’t offer a demo version.
Hello! I hope you can help me. I had a HDD that was partially written over, I recovered all the files possible from it and the pdf I desperately need is there – it has the right file size and in some tools I can see the HEX which is gobbledegook to me. I have put this recovered pdf on a new HDD and really hope someone can suggest something to recover the data (my PhD theory chapter! Eek!). I have tried all the free/online/demo tools and got nowhere.
I’m desperate!
Thanks!
Another way to fix a corrupted PDF files that will not open with Adobe reader is use your Mac or a friends Mac computer to open the file with the built-in Preview application and re-save the file again under the same name and as a PDF format file. You will then be able to open the file with the ADOBE PDF reader on any computer platform.
THNKS LOT…………………
worked for me thanks a lot
An other powerful data recovery solution is Recovery for PDF. It extracts the page tree and other elements from the selected damaged PDF documents.
http://bstdownload.com/reviews/recovery-pdf-1/
I came across a portable APDFR2. Scan said “no virus” so I ran it. It actually made a fixed file, but THEN it tried to install a trojan. My response was to start deleting everything associated with that program, and in the process I mistakenly deleted the corrupted file. So then I tried using the APDFR2 trial version. Turns out that the trial version converts the fixed file into a corrupted file, except that the allegedly legit fix was worse than the original. Strange. . . . So here’s a question. Since I can detect the trojan on my anti-virus, is there really any harm in running the portable APDFR2?
Thanks This really help me a lot too.. :)
This article was written in 2005. Here we are in 2011 and the hack still works. I thought someone said they had an online repair that was much cheaper. I would have gladly paid for that one, but I couldn’t find it.
hi, glad to see this ancient post 2005! wow! ‘The past is the key to the future’
1. Any PDF File has (A) Pictures (picture streams) (B) Text objects (text hidden behind pictures) (C) Bookmarks (D) Annotation Objecrs (E) Files and attachments. Where is the problem?
2. Any PDF Reader is a reader HAS to read serially left to itself -(interpretor style line after line) and this for reasons of bucks developers dont like.
3.PDFTK is good – very good – 3.1 Burst multipage PDFs into single files and Uncompress the file first 3.2. and then read and understand your PDF File. Are you able to read? No? Which reader are you using?
4. Adobe Reader is giving you a problem ? Try Foxit, Sumatra, Evince, Tracker software’s PDFXVwer, or any simple java based reader or even the Mac route already suggested by nycrican2.
5.PDFTK is good – very good – Pity that most people didn’t read about direct edit of hidden text in PDF with VIM or Notepad++ editors. PDfill.com has tools and an affordable editor that can be supplemented with Foxit,PDFXVwer,Evince
6. Notepad ++ also simple windows search or DOS Findstr / Find and piping results to a text makes redundant the fancy Search boxes, stuff and overhead in Adobe etc. and bonus is saving info on what ou searched for.
7. Finding number of burst PDF files large (ie original PDF has 000s of pages? Do a simple DIR /B >pages-in document.txt
copy paste from this into a spreadsheet openoffice.org Calc – and build up a batch file – Dont know what I am talking about? read more about DOS commands – most of it will be pre 2005 – Have fun rediscovering
This is one of the finest commentaries on a computer problem I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately I couldn’t get the demo copy of the APDFR to work – i.e. it would hang whenever I tried to even preview the document. Because of this I wasn’t willing to buy the program – especially at $140. However, Kedarnath’s note was also VERY helpful – the Preview trick seemed to work well. (I have an Intel Mac and regularly use both PC and MAC sides! It was easy to switch from one side to the other.)
Thanks This really help me a lot
I needed 1 PDF file fixed. I was upset so-called ‘legit’ file fixers’d only open the 1st page, then wanted my cc to ‘complete the process’. I came across this site b4 I fell prey to the scam. I’m no expert: forgotten what little DOS/programming I ever knew. I read thru Scott’s entire page & came across PDFTK. I downloaded it & in seconds my 38 pg corrupted PDF file was up & running :)
THANK YOU!PDFTK worked flawlessly 4 FREE. Scott’s right- I’ve worked w/PDF files for 20+ years & this’s my 1st corrupt file. Why pay extortive rates to those ‘legit’ programs (most of which don’t work per many entries I read) for 1 use?
As a little ‘thank you’ I’ll share something most people aren’t aware of: BEFORE you click on ‘accept TOS’ look for hidden pre-checked boxes & UNCLICK them. Many good, legit & 100% useful programs [like Mozy] sell space on their order forms 4 secondary junk programs to ‘speed up your computer’ or ‘clean your registry’ etc, along w/permissions to send junk email clutter (newsletters, sales promos etc). If you don’t watch 4 these preclicked boxes you can find your inbox getting clobbered.
Also, be on the alert for any program displaying those ‘Microsoft Gold Seals’. THESE SEALS MEAN LESS THAN NOTHING. After having 1 computer wrecked by a ‘gold seal’ [registry cleaner] program CNET listed as 1 of 3 best…5 stars! I had to reformat the drive. I called Microsoft & asked about that seal. I was informed ANYONE could post that seal merely by taking a short course in a small part of the Microsoft’s programming code! Whatever program they hawked – whether it worked or not- Microsoft was firm: they had NO responsibility for any harm, damages, harm etc. incurred by purchasing these products.They said it was ‘caveat emptor’ [buyer beware]. If you check out the program 1st (see below) you generally find any program posting the seal is a waste of money & a disaster waiting to happen.
Serious programmers strongly warn against using ANY registry ‘cleaners’ or ‘fixers as ALL do far more harm than good. After 2,3 or more run-thru’s your registry’s usually shot. FYI: Everyone should make a FULL copy of their registry before installing any of these or any new program(so you can manually restore your system – the Windows ‘restore’ is useless against the damage these programs cause) I restore mine to a thumb drive since registries run to 100s of pages! The ONLY program I’ve found that uninstalled 100% of any program is REVO’s [shareware] uninstaller. It’s 10x better than Windows uninstaller: you can SEE what’s being removed & accept or overrride it.
What I’ve learned to do before buying ANY new program or product is Google the name w/’scam’, ‘complaint’ and/or ‘problem’ after it. That’s how I found Scott’s site – for which I’m grateful. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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One day I opened my PDF file & it shown “File is corrupt or damaged,” error message. I did research on this error message & found that my PDF file got corrupted as message indicates itself. I used Adobe Acrobat built-in repair tool but this utility didn’t repair my corrupt PDF file. I also tried PDF toolkit but NO LUCK!! In last I tried Stellar Phoenix PDF Recovery Software. The software easily recovered my corrupt PDF file & I got all my data back!! Thanks to Stellar!!