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 file’s 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),

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