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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.

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' dictionary 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. 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.)

-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) pdfseparate(1), pdfsig(1),
pdfunite(1)

15 August 2011 pdfinfo(1)