Repair a damaged or corrupted PDF — nine recovery strategies, one clean result
A broken PDF usually isn't broken in just one way, so this tool doesn't try one fix. It runs nine recovery strategies in order, from lossless to aggressive, and keeps the first result that comes back structurally clean.
It fixes damage most tools refuse to touch
One strategy rebuilds the object table directly from raw file syntax and re-points a destroyed /Root reference at the real catalog — exactly the kind of damage that makes qpdf, MuPDF, pikepdf and pdftk refuse the file outright.
A last resort that still saves your page
If a page's own objects are truly beyond repair, a final pass copies the document page by page and rasterises that one page instead of dropping it — so one unreadable page can't take the whole file down with it.
The damage it actually recognizes
Broken cross-reference tables, missing %%EOF or %PDF headers, garbage prepended before the header, corrupt object streams, and even a file that's both encrypted and damaged, given the right password.
Honest reporting, not silent guesses
The response states exactly which pages, if any, could not be recovered, rather than quietly handing back a file with missing content.
What you get
- Nine recovery strategies tried automatically, from lossless to aggressive
- A clear report of what was wrong and what could or couldn't be recovered
- Free, with nothing stored for longer than an hour
What's next?
Once your file is repaired, Compress PDF can shrink it back down, Remove PDF Metadata strips any leftover trace of the tool that originally damaged it, and Merge PDF can combine it with other files once it's clean.