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       If PDF-file is ´-', it reads the PDF file from stdin.
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18       The ´Info' dictionary contains the following values:
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20              title
21              subject
22              keywords
23              author
24              creator
25              producer
26              creation date
27              modification date
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29       In addition, the following information is printed:
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31              tagged (yes/no)
32              form (AcroForm / XFA / none)
33              javascript (yes/no)
34              page count
35              encrypted flag (yes/no)
36              print and copy permissions (if encrypted)
37              page size
38              file size
39              linearized (yes/no)
40              PDF version
41              metadata (only if requested)
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43       The  options -listenc, -meta, -js, -struct, and -struct-text only print
44       the requested information.  The  'Info'  dictionary  and  related  data
45       listed  above  is not printed. At most one of these five options may be
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OPTIONS

49       -f number
50              Specifies the first page to examine.  If multiple pages are  re‐
51              quested  using  the  "-f" and "-l" options, the size of each re‐
52              quested page (and, optionally, the bounding boxes for  each  re‐
53              quested  page)  are  printed.  Otherwise, only page one is exam‐
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56       -l number
57              Specifies the last page to examine.
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59       -box   Prints the page box bounding boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox,
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62       -meta  Prints  document-level metadata.  (This is the "Metadata" stream
63              from the PDF file's Catalog object.)
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65       -js    Prints all JavaScript in the PDF.
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67       -struct
68              Prints the logical document structure of a Tagged-PDF file.
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70       -struct-text
71              Print the textual content along with the document structure of a
72              Tagged-PDF  file.   Note  that extracting text this way might be
73              slow for big PDF files.  (Implies -struct.)
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75       -isodates
76              Prints dates in ISO-8601 format (including the time zone).
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78       -rawdates
79              Prints the raw (undecoded) date strings, directly from  the  PDF
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82       -dests Print a list of all named destinations. If a page range is spec‐
83              ified using "-f" and "-l", only destinations in the  page  range
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86       -enc encoding-name
87              Sets  the  encoding  to  use  for  text output. This defaults to
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90       -listenc
91              Lits the available encodings
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93       -opw password
94              Specify the owner password for the  PDF  file.   Providing  this
95              will bypass all security restrictions.
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97       -upw password
98              Specify the user password for the PDF file.
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100       -v     Print copyright and version information.
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102       -h     Print usage information.  (-help and --help are equivalent.)
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EXIT CODES

105       The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
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107       0      No error.
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109       1      Error opening a PDF file.
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111       2      Error opening an output file.
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113       3      Error related to PDF permissions.
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115       99     Other error.
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AUTHOR

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

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