This new version of pdf-parser brings support for analysis of stream objects (/ObjStm). Use new option -O to enable this mode.

Stream objects (/ObjStm) are objects that contain other objects: they have a stream, containing other objects. These contained objects can not have a stream.

pdfid.py detects the presence of stream objects:

But pdfid can not look inside a stream, to figure out what objects are inside. That’s why I always say to use pdf-parser to select and decompress stream objects, and then pipe this through pdfid:

When pdf-parser parses a stream object, it does not parse the content of its stream:

This changes with this new version of pdf-parser. When option -O is used, pdf-parser extracts objects from /ObjStm streams and handles them like normal objects. In the following example, object 2 is contained in object 1:

pdf-parser provides statistics for a PDF’s content with option -a:

Combining option -a with option -O includes objects present inside stream objects (this is an alternative for combining both tools: pdf-parser -s objstm -f a.pdf | pdfid -f):

This output shows that /JavaScript can be found in object 7. We need to use option -O to find object 7 “hiding” in object 1:

If we forget to use option -O, object 7 is not found:

Here is a video showing this new feature:

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