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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41       The  options -listenc, -meta, -js, -struct, and -struct-text only print
42       the requested information.  The  'Info'  dictionary  and  related  data
43       listed  above  is not printed. At most one of these five options may be
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OPTIONS

47       -f number
48              Specifies the first page to  examine.   If  multiple  pages  are
49              requested  using  the  "-f"  and  "-l" options, the size of each
50              requested page (and, optionally, the  bounding  boxes  for  each
51              requested  page) are printed.  Otherwise, only page one is exam‐
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54       -l number
55              Specifies the last page to examine.
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57       -box   Prints the page box bounding boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox,
58              TrimBox, and ArtBox.
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60       -meta  Prints  document-level metadata.  (This is the "Metadata" stream
61              from the PDF file's Catalog object.)
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63       -js    Prints all JavaScript in the PDF.
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65       -struct
66              Prints the logical document structure of a Tagged-PDF file.
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68       -struct-text
69              Print the textual content along with the document structure of a
70              Tagged-PDF  file.   Note  that extracting text this way might be
71              slow for big PDF files.  (Implies -struct.)
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73       -isodates
74              Prints dates in ISO-8601 format (including the time zone).
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76       -rawdates
77              Prints the raw (undecoded) date strings, directly from  the  PDF
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80       -dests Print a list of all named destinations. If a page range is spec‐
81              ified using "-f" and "-l", only destinations in the  page  range
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84       -enc encoding-name
85              Sets  the  encoding  to  use  for  text output. This defaults to
86              "UTF-8".
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88       -listenc
89              Lits the available encodings
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91       -opw password
92              Specify the owner password for the  PDF  file.   Providing  this
93              will bypass all security restrictions.
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95       -upw password
96              Specify the user password for the PDF file.
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98       -v     Print copyright and version information.
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100       -h     Print usage information.  (-help and --help are equivalent.)
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EXIT CODES

103       The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
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105       0      No error.
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107       1      Error opening a PDF file.
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109       2      Error opening an output file.
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111       3      Error related to PDF permissions.
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113       99     Other error.
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AUTHOR

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

120       pdfdetach(1), pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1),  pdftocairo(1),  pdftohtml(1),
121       pdftoppm(1),  pdftops(1), pdftotext(1) pdfseparate(1), pdfsig(1), pdfu‐
122       nite(1)
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