pdfinfo(1) General Commands Manual pdfinfo(1)
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 re-
quested using the "-f" and "-l" options, the size of each re-
quested page (and, optionally, the bounding boxes for each re-
quested page) are printed. Otherwise, only page one is exam-
ined.
-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 Pop-
pler are listed. Currently, this is limited to Annotations.
Note: only URLs referenced by the PDF objects such as Link Anno-
tations 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 spec-
ified 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), pdfu-
nite(1)
15 August 2011 pdfinfo(1)
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