pdfinfo(1)

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

6       pdfinfo - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor
7       (version 3.00)
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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              page count
31              encrypted flag (yes/no)
32              print and copy permissions (if encrypted)
33              page size
34              file size
35              linearized (yes/no)
36              PDF version
37              metadata (only if requested)
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CONFIGURATION FILE

40       Pdfinfo  reads a configuration file at startup.  It first tries to find
41       the user's private config file, ~/.xpdfrc.  If that doesn't  exist,  it
42       looks  for  a  system-wide  config  file,  /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc.   See  the
43       xpdfrc(5) man page for details.
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OPTIONS

46       Many of the following options can be set with configuration  file  com‐
47       mands.  These are listed in square brackets with the description of the
48       corresponding command line option.
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50       -f number
51              Specifies the first page to  examine.   If  multiple  pages  are
52              requested  using  the  "-f"  and  "-l" options, the size of each
53              requested page (and, optionally, the  bounding  boxes  for  each
54              requested  page) are printed.  Otherwise, only page one is exam‐
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57       -l number
58              Specifies the last page to examine.
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60       -box   Prints the page box bounding boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox,
61              TrimBox, and ArtBox.
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63       -meta  Prints  document-level metadata.  (This is the "Metadata" stream
64              from the PDF file's Catalog object.)
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66       -enc encoding-name
67              Sets the encoding to use for  text  output.   The  encoding-name
68              must  be  defined  with  the unicodeMap command (see xpdfrc(5)).
69              This defaults to "Latin1" (which is a built-in encoding).  [con‐
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72       -opw password
73              Specify  the  owner  password  for the PDF file.  Providing this
74              will bypass all security restrictions.
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76       -upw password
77              Specify the user password for the PDF file.
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79       -cfg config-file
80              Read config-file in place of ~/.xpdfrc or the system-wide config
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83       -v     Print copyright and version information.
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85       -h     Print usage information.  (-help and --help are equivalent.)
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EXIT CODES

88       The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
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90       0      No error.
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92       1      Error opening a PDF file.
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94       2      Error opening an output file.
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96       3      Error related to PDF permissions.
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AUTHOR

101       The  pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph &
102       Cog, LLC.
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