1pdfinfo(1)                  General Commands Manual                 pdfinfo(1)
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NAME

6       pdfinfo - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor
7       (version 3.03)
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SYNOPSIS

10       pdfinfo [options] [PDF-file]
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DESCRIPTION

13       Pdfinfo prints the contents of the ´Info' dictionary (plus  some  other
14       useful information) from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
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16       The ´Info' dictionary contains the following values:
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18              title
19              subject
20              keywords
21              author
22              creator
23              producer
24              creation date
25              modification date
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27       In addition, the following information is printed:
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29              tagged (yes/no)
30              form (AcroForm / XFA / none)
31              javascript (yes/no)
32              page count
33              encrypted flag (yes/no)
34              print and copy permissions (if encrypted)
35              page size
36              file size
37              linearized (yes/no)
38              PDF version
39              metadata (only if requested)
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OPTIONS

42       -f number
43              Specifies  the  first  page  to  examine.  If multiple pages are
44              requested using the "-f" and "-l"  options,  the  size  of  each
45              requested  page  (and,  optionally,  the bounding boxes for each
46              requested page) are printed.  Otherwise, only page one is  exam‐
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49       -l number
50              Specifies the last page to examine.
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52       -box   Prints the page box bounding boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox,
53              TrimBox, and ArtBox.
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55       -meta  Prints document-level metadata.  (This is the "Metadata"  stream
56              from the PDF file's Catalog object.)
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58       +.B -js
59              +Prints  all  JavaScript  in the PDF.  +.TP -rawdates Prints the
60              raw (undecoded) date strings, directly from the PDF file.
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62       -enc encoding-name
63              Sets the encoding to use  for  text  output.  This  defaults  to
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66       -listenc
67              Lits the available encodings
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69       -opw password
70              Specify  the  owner  password  for the PDF file.  Providing this
71              will bypass all security restrictions.
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73       -upw password
74              Specify the user password for the PDF file.
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76       -v     Print copyright and version information.
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78       -h     Print usage information.  (-help and --help are equivalent.)
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EXIT CODES

81       The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
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83       0      No error.
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85       1      Error opening a PDF file.
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87       2      Error opening an output file.
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89       3      Error related to PDF permissions.
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AUTHOR

94       The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph  &
95       Cog, LLC.
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SEE ALSO

98       pdfdetach(1),  pdffonts(1),  pdfimages(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1),
99       pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1)
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103                                15 August 2011                      pdfinfo(1)
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