Fixing Broken PDFs

PDFs can get corrupted during download or email transfer.

Symptoms

    * Blank pages.

• Error messages like "Format error: not a PDF".
• Missing images.

Solutions

1. ** Redownload **: Often it's just a partial download.
2. ** Use Repair Tool **: Our[Repair PDF](/repair) tool attempts to rebuild the file header and structure to salvage readable content.

3. ** Text Recovery **: If the visual formatting is gone, try extracting the raw text usingPDF to Text.