---
name: "podofouncompress"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "podofo-tools"
version: "0.10.6-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/podofouncompress"
---

# podofouncompress(1)

Uncompress PDF files

## NAME

podofouncompress - Uncompress PDF files

## SYNOPSIS

**podofouncompress** \[inputfile\] \[outputfile\]

## DESCRIPTION

**podofouncompress** is one of the command line tools from the PoDoFo library that provide several useful operations to work with PDF files. It can remove compression from a PDF file. It is useful for debugging errors in PDF files or analysing their structure.

## OPTIONS

**\[inputfile\]**

Input PDF file.

**\[outputfile\]**

Output PDF file.

## SEE ALSO

[**podofobox**(1)](/podofobox/1.md), [**podofocolor**(1)](/podofocolor/1.md), [**podofocountpages**(1)](/podofocountpages/1.md), [**podofocrop**(1)](/podofocrop/1.md), [**podofoencrypt**(1)](/podofoencrypt/1.md), [**podofogc**(1)](/podofogc/1.md), [**podofoimg2pdf**(1)](/podofoimg2pdf/1.md), [**podofoimgextract**(1)](/podofoimgextract/1.md), [**podofoimpose**(1)](/podofoimpose/1.md), [**podofoincrementalupdates**(1)](/podofoincrementalupdates/1.md), [**podofomerge**(1)](/podofomerge/1.md), [**podofopages**(1)](/podofopages/1.md), [**podofopdfinfo**(1)](/podofopdfinfo/1.md), [**podofotxt2pdf**(1)](/podofotxt2pdf/1.md), [**podofotxtextract**(1)](/podofotxtextract/1.md), [**podofoxmp**(1)](/podofoxmp/1.md)

## AUTHORS

PoDoFo is written by Dominik Seichter \<domseichter@web.de\> and others.

This manual page was written by Oleksandr Moskalenko \<malex@debian.org\> for the Debian Project (but may be used by others).