Manual: pdfinfo

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'  dictio‐
       nary 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.  Other‐
	      wise, 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.)

       -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 Poppler are listed.  Currently, this is limited to
	      Annotations. Note: only URLs referenced by the PDF objects such as Link Annotations 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 specified 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) pdfsepa‐
       rate(1), pdfsig(1), pdfunite(1)

						       15 August 2011						  pdfinfo(1)