Grab the xref table from a PDF file, save it to a text file. Use it as input to find all the objects in a PDF.

#!/usr/bin/env python

__author__ = 'Meaux'
__version__ = '0.1'
__date__ = '2009/08/19'


import fileinput
import re


f = open('duckypdf', 'rb')
fx = open('xreflist.txt')
objectlist = []
for line in fx:
    l = line
    
    f.seek(int(line), 0)
    pf = open('working_out.txt', 'w')
    objItem = f.read(10) + " " + line + "\n"
    objectlist.append(objItem)

for objItem in objectlist:   
    pf.write(objItem)

Script to rip through a PDF file to see if the objects match the object references and pop out the number of the object(s) that have no match:

#!/usr/bin/env python

__author__ = 'Meaux'
__version__ = '0.1'
__date__ = '2009/08/19'


import fileinput
import re

objectlist = []
subNumObjList = []
subRList = []
f = open('ducky.pdf', 'rb')
pf = open('listObjects_out_bad_750_350_X2.txt', 'w')
for line in f:
    reObjItems = re.compile(r"[0-9]*\s\d\s\obj")
    result = reObjItems.finditer(line)
    for item in result:
        objString = item.group(0)
        objString = re.findall(r"(\d+)\s*0", objString)
        subNumObjList.append(int(objString[0]))

f.seek(0)

subNumObjList.append(999999)
subRList.append(99999999)
for rLine in f:             
    reRItems = re.compile(r"[0-9]*\s\d\s\R")
    rResult = reRItems.finditer(rLine)
    
    for rItem in rResult:
        rString = rItem.group(0)
        rString = re.findall(r"(\d+)\s*0", rString)
        subRList.append(int(rString[0]))
     
print subRList
print subNumObjList
d = {}
for x in subRList:
    d[x] = 0
    
    for x in subNumObjList:
        if d.has_key(x):
            del d[x]
            #print d.keys()
print d
         
f.close()

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