pdfinfo
Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor (version 3.03)
see also :
pdfdetach - pdffonts - pdfimages - pdftocairo - pdftohtml - pdftoppm - pdftops - pdftotext
Synopsis
pdfinfo
[options] [PDF-file]
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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)
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.)
-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:
0
No error.
1
Error opening a PDF file.
2
Error opening an output file.
3
Error related to PDF permissions.
99
Other error.
see also
pdfdetach ,
pdffonts , pdfimages ,
pdftocairo , pdftohtml ,
pdftoppm , pdftops ,
pdftotext
author
The pdfinfo
software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph
& Cog, LLC.