pdfinfo(1)
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.