NAME
pdfinfo - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor (version 3.00)
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)
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 files Catalog object.) |
-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 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
SEE ALSO
pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdffonts(1), pdftoppm(1), pdfimages(1),