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Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 15 August 2011
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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.

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