pdfinfo
Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.08
Section: C Library Functions (3)
Updated: 15 August 2011
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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.)
- -js
-
Prints all JavaScript in the PDF.
- -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)
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