# Repair PDF

> Recover readable pages from a corrupted PDF file.

URL: https://uttir.com/pdf-repair
Categories: pdf-tools
Privacy: Your PDF is repaired locally in your browser and never uploaded.

## About

Repair PDF rebuilds a damaged document by parsing whatever is readable and copying every recoverable page into a clean, fresh PDF. Broken cross-reference tables, dangling references, and truncated trailers are the most common causes of "file is corrupted" errors — and all are tolerated here.

Recovery is not magic: if the file is truncated in the middle, only the pages whose data survived can be recovered. The tool tells you how many pages it saved instead of pretending.

## How to use

1. **Choose the damaged PDF** — The file that refuses to open normally.
2. **Run the repair** — Readable pages are copied into a clean document.
3. **Download the result** — You get a fresh PDF with every recoverable page.

## FAQ

### What kinds of damage can be repaired?

Broken xref tables, invalid objects, and structural corruption from bad transfers or buggy generators. Scanned-image pages inside a damaged file usually survive fully.

### Will everything be recovered?

Everything that is physically intact and reachable. A file truncated mid-page loses that page; bookmarks and form fields may be dropped if their data is damaged.

### Why is my repaired file smaller?

Repair re-saves with compressed object streams, which often packs the structure tighter than the original producer did. Content is unchanged.

### My PDF opens fine — will this improve it?

Probably not. Repair is for files that fail to open or misbehave. For large healthy files, the PDF Compressor is the tool you want.

## Related tools

- [Unlock PDF](https://uttir.com/pdf-unlock) — Remove the password from a protected PDF you own.
- [PDF Merge](https://uttir.com/pdf-merge) — Combine multiple PDFs into one, in the order you choose.
- [PDF Organize Pages](https://uttir.com/pdf-organize) — Reorder pages of a PDF — drag-and-drop style. Specify the new order and download the rearranged document.

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