What this tool does
Attempt to recover a PDF with damaged structure. The tool first tries structural recovery and can rebuild viewable pages as images when ordinary repair cannot preserve the original document.
- What you can open
- One damaged PDF whose data is still partly readable.
- What you will download
- A recovered PDF when sufficient page content can be opened.
How to use it
- Keep an untouched copy of the damaged original.
- Open the file in Repair PDF and run the recovery attempt.
- Review every recovered page and check whether text and forms still work.
Know the tradeoffs
- Severely damaged or missing content cannot always be recovered.
- Rendered fallback recovery removes selectable text, links, forms and digital signatures.
Questions about this tool
Can repair recreate pages whose data is missing?
No. It can only work with information that remains in the source.
Why did a repaired document become image-based?
The rendered recovery fallback rebuilds pages that can be displayed when structural repair is insufficient.