Repair a PDF file

[jonhenryhunt]

Is there any reliable way to repair a file.

When I try to open it I get a message that the file is damaged or may be corrupted.

[Karl Heinz Kremer · Accepted solution]

No, and if anybody tells you otherwise, they are trying to scam you. I’ve tried a ton of different tools, and none of them can fix a truely corrupted file. There are some instances when Acrobat itself will fix a file that has e.g. an incorrect xref table, but other than that, there is nothing you can do to fix a   corrupt file.

[Bernd Alheit]

What can you see at the first few lines when you open the file in a text editor like notepad?

[Kemper5F9B]

Hi Bernd; don't know if you will see this post since it's from an older conversation, but I have a similar issue with a corrupted pdf file I constructed. Here's what the 1st couple of lines are when opened in Notepad.

%PDF-1.7

%âãÏÓ

2593 0 obj

<</Filter/FlateDecode/First 1697/Length 27880/N 153/Type/ObjStm>>stream

What are you looking for here? Thanks in advance-kemper