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Name

pdfinfo - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor (version 3.03)

Synopsis

pdfinfo [options] [PDF-file]

Description

Pdfinfo prints the contents of the ’Info’ dictionary (plus some other useful information) from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

The ’Info’ dictionary contains the following values:

title
subject
keywords
author
creator
producer
creation date
modification date

In addition, the following information is printed:

tagged (yes/no)
form (AcroForm / XFA / none)
javascript (yes/no)
page count
encrypted flag (yes/no)
print and copy permissions (if encrypted)
page size
file size
linearized (yes/no)
PDF version
metadata (only if requested)

Options

-f number
Specifies the first page to examine. If multiple pages are requested using the "-f" and "-l" options, the size of each requested page (and, optionally, the bounding boxes for each requested page) are printed. Otherwise, only page one is examined.
-l number
Specifies the last page to examine.
-box
Prints the page box bounding boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox, TrimBox, and ArtBox.
-meta
Prints document-level metadata. (This is the "Metadata" stream from the PDF file’s Catalog object.)
+.B -js
+Prints all JavaScript in the PDF. +.TP -rawdates Prints the raw (undecoded) date strings, directly from the PDF file.
-enc encoding-name
Sets the encoding to use for text output. This defaults to "UTF-8".
-listenc
Lits the available encodings
-opw password
Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will bypass all security restrictions.
-upw password
Specify the user password for the PDF file.
-v
Print copyright and version information.
-h
Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.)

Exit Codes

The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
  1. No error.
  2. Error opening a PDF file.
  3. Error opening an output file.
  4. Error related to PDF permissions.
  5. Other error.

Author

The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC.

See Also

pdfdetach(1) , pdffonts(1) , pdfimages(1) , pdftocairo(1) , pdftohtml(1) , pdftoppm(1) , pdftops(1) , pdftotext(1)

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