Repair PDF
Ignore damaged structure and rewrite the readable pages into a fresh PDF.
This tool does not upload your files. Close the tab and nothing is left behind.
When a viewer refuses to open the file
A PDF that opens in one program and fails in another is usually not destroyed, just badly written. A download that stopped short, a drive removed mid-write, or a generator that produced an inconsistent index will all leave a file whose contents are intact but whose table of offsets no longer points at them. Strict readers give up; forgiving ones limp along.
This tool parses the file with its error checks relaxed, then copies every page it can successfully read into a brand-new document with a freshly built structure. A broken index is the most common fault and the most reliably fixed, because the pages themselves are rebuilt from what was actually found rather than from what the file claimed.
Content that is genuinely missing cannot be invented: a page whose data stream was truncated comes out blank or does not appear at all, and a file too damaged to parse at all cannot be opened here either. Bookmarks, document information and form definitions are not carried across, since the output is a clean document containing the recovered pages.
How to use
- 1
Select the broken PDF.
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Click Start.
- 3
Download the result.
Frequently asked questions
- Does it fix everything?
- No. Structural damage is usually recoverable; corrupted content is not.
- Encrypted files?
- You are asked for the password, then the file is repaired. The result is saved without a password.