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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)

The options −listenc, −meta, −js, −struct, and −struct-text only print the requested information. The ’Info’ dictionary and related data listed above is not printed. At most one of these five options may be used.

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.)

−js

Prints all JavaScript in the PDF.

−struct

Prints the logical document structure of a Tagged-PDF file.

−struct-text

Print the textual content along with the document structure of a Tagged-PDF file. Note that extracting text this way might be slow for big PDF files. (Implies −struct.)

−isodates

Prints dates in ISO-8601 format (including the time zone).

−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.

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) pdfseparate(1), pdfsig(1), pdfunite(1)

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