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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. If PDF-file is ´-', it reads the PDF file from stdin. The ´Info' dictionary contains the following values: title subject keywords author creator producer creation date modification date In addition, the following information is printed: custom metadata (yes/no) metadata stream (yes/no) tagged (yes/no) userproperties (yes/no) suspects (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.) -custom Prints custom and standard metadata. -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.) -url Print all URLs in the PDF. Only the URL types supported by Poppler are listed. Currently, this is limited to Annotations. Note: only URLs referenced by the PDF objects such as Link Annotations are listed. pdfinfo does not attempt to extract strings matching http://... from the text content. -isodates Prints dates in ISO-8601 format (including the time zone). -rawdates Prints the raw (undecoded) date strings, directly from the PDF file. -dests Print a list of all named destinations. If a page range is specified using "-f" and "-l", only destinations in the page range are listed. -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) 15 August 2011 pdfinfo(1)