Dr Andrew Scott
G7VAV
Senior Lecturer
School of Computing
and Communications
D35 InfoLab21
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom
School of Computing
and Communications
D35 InfoLab21
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom
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pdfinfo
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: 22 January 2004
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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
pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1)
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