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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.
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)
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.)
- +.B -js
- +Prints all JavaScript in the PDF. +.TP -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)
15 August 2011 |