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<H1>pdfinfo</H1>
Section: User Commands (1)<BR>Updated: 15 August 2011<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<A NAME="lbAB">&nbsp;</A>
<H2>NAME</H2>
pdfinfo - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information
extractor (version 3.03)
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>pdfinfo</B>
[options]
[<I>PDF-file</I>]
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
<B>Pdfinfo</B>
prints the contents of the 'Info' dictionary (plus some other useful
information) from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
<P>
The 'Info' dictionary contains the following values:
<P>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="1"><DD>
title
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="2"><DD>
subject
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="3"><DD>
keywords
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="4"><DD>
author
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="5"><DD>
creator
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="6"><DD>
producer
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="7"><DD>
creation date
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="8"><DD>
modification date
</DL>
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In addition, the following information is printed:
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<DL COMPACT><DT id="9"><DD>
tagged (yes/no)
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="10"><DD>
form (AcroForm / XFA / none)
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="11"><DD>
javascript (yes/no)
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="12"><DD>
page count
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="13"><DD>
encrypted flag (yes/no)
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="14"><DD>
print and copy permissions (if encrypted)
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="15"><DD>
page size
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="16"><DD>
file size
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="17"><DD>
linearized (yes/no)
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="18"><DD>
PDF version
</DL>
<DL COMPACT><DT id="19"><DD>
metadata (only if requested)
</DL>
<P>
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.
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2>
<DL COMPACT>
<DT id="20"><B>-f</B><I> number</I>
<DD>
Specifies the first page to examine. If multiple pages are requested
using the &quot;-f&quot; and &quot;-l&quot; options, the size of each requested page (and,
optionally, the bounding boxes for each requested page) are printed.
Otherwise, only page one is examined.
<DT id="21"><B>-l</B><I> number</I>
<DD>
Specifies the last page to examine.
<DT id="22"><B>-box</B>
<DD>
Prints the page box bounding boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox,
TrimBox, and ArtBox.
<DT id="23"><B>-meta</B>
<DD>
Prints document-level metadata. (This is the &quot;Metadata&quot; stream from
the PDF file's Catalog object.)
<DT id="24"><B>-js</B>
<DD>
Prints all JavaScript in the PDF.
<DT id="25"><B>-struct</B>
<DD>
Prints the logical document structure of a Tagged-PDF file.
<DT id="26"><B>-struct-text</B>
<DD>
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
<B>-struct</B>.)
<DT id="27"><B>-isodates</B>
<DD>
Prints dates in ISO-8601 format (including the time zone).
<DT id="28"><B>-rawdates</B>
<DD>
Prints the raw (undecoded) date strings, directly from the PDF file.
<DT id="29"><B>-dests</B>
<DD>
Print a list of all named destinations. If a page range is specified using &quot;-f&quot; and &quot;-l&quot;, only
destinations in the page range are listed.
<DT id="30"><B>-enc</B><I> encoding-name</I>
<DD>
Sets the encoding to use for text output. This defaults to &quot;UTF-8&quot;.
<DT id="31"><B>-listenc</B>
<DD>
Lits the available encodings
<DT id="32"><B>-opw</B><I> password</I>
<DD>
Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will
bypass all security restrictions.
<DT id="33"><B>-upw</B><I> password</I>
<DD>
Specify the user password for the PDF file.
<DT id="34"><B>-v</B>
<DD>
Print copyright and version information.
<DT id="35"><B>-h</B>
<DD>
Print usage information.
(<B>-help</B>
and
<B>--help</B>
are equivalent.)
</DL>
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<H2>EXIT CODES</H2>
The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
<DL COMPACT>
<DT id="36">0<DD>
No error.
<DT id="37">1<DD>
Error opening a PDF file.
<DT id="38">2<DD>
Error opening an output file.
<DT id="39">3<DD>
Error related to PDF permissions.
<DT id="40">99<DD>
Other error.
</DL>
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph &amp;
Cog, LLC.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+pdfdetach">pdfdetach</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+pdffonts">pdffonts</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+pdfimages">pdfimages</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+pdftocairo">pdftocairo</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+pdftohtml">pdftohtml</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+pdftoppm">pdftoppm</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+pdftops">pdftops</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+pdftotext">pdftotext</A></B>(1)
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+pdfseparate">pdfseparate</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+pdfsig">pdfsig</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+pdfunite">pdfunite</A></B>(1)
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<A NAME="index">&nbsp;</A><H2>Index</H2>
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<DT id="41"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT id="42"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT id="43"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT id="44"><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A><DD>
<DT id="45"><A HREF="#lbAF">EXIT CODES</A><DD>
<DT id="46"><A HREF="#lbAG">AUTHOR</A><DD>
<DT id="47"><A HREF="#lbAH">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
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