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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OPTIONS

40       -f number
41              Specifies  the  first  page  to  examine.  If multiple pages are
42              requested using the "-f" and "-l"  options,  the  size  of  each
43              requested  page  (and,  optionally,  the bounding boxes for each
44              requested page) are printed.  Otherwise, only page one is  exam‐
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47       -l number
48              Specifies the last page to examine.
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50       -box   Prints the page box bounding boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox,
51              TrimBox, and ArtBox.
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53       -meta  Prints document-level metadata.  (This is the "Metadata"  stream
54              from the PDF file's Catalog object.)
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56       -enc encoding-name
57              Sets  the  encoding  to  use  for  text output. This defaults to
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60       -listenc
61              Lits the available encodings
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63       -opw password
64              Specify the owner password for the  PDF  file.   Providing  this
65              will bypass all security restrictions.
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67       -upw password
68              Specify the user password for the PDF file.
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70       -v     Print copyright and version information.
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72       -h     Print usage information.  (-help and --help are equivalent.)
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EXIT CODES

75       The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
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77       0      No error.
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79       1      Error opening a PDF file.
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81       2      Error opening an output file.
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83       3      Error related to PDF permissions.
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AUTHOR

88       The  pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph &
89       Cog, LLC.
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SEE ALSO

92       pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdffonts(1), pdftoppm(1), pdfimages(1),
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96                                22 January 2004                     pdfinfo(1)