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              custom metadata (yes/no)
32              metadata stream (yes/no)
33              tagged (yes/no)
34              userproperties (yes/no)
35              suspects (yes/no)
36              form (AcroForm / XFA / none)
37              javascript (yes/no)
38              page count
39              encrypted flag (yes/no)
40              print and copy permissions (if encrypted)
41              page size
42              file size
43              linearized (yes/no)
44              PDF version
45              metadata (only if requested)
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47       The  options -listenc, -meta, -js, -struct, and -struct-text only print
48       the requested information.  The  'Info'  dictionary  and  related  data
49       listed  above  is not printed. At most one of these five options may be
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OPTIONS

53       -f number
54              Specifies the first page to examine.  If multiple pages are  re‐
55              quested  using  the  "-f" and "-l" options, the size of each re‐
56              quested page (and, optionally, the bounding boxes for  each  re‐
57              quested  page)  are  printed.  Otherwise, only page one is exam‐
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60       -l number
61              Specifies the last page to examine.
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63       -box   Prints the page box bounding boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox,
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66       -meta  Prints  document-level metadata.  (This is the "Metadata" stream
67              from the PDF file's Catalog object.)
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69       -custom
70              Prints custom and standard metadata.
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72       -js    Prints all JavaScript in the PDF.
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74       -struct
75              Prints the logical document structure of a Tagged-PDF file.
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77       -struct-text
78              Print the textual content along with the document structure of a
79              Tagged-PDF  file.   Note  that extracting text this way might be
80              slow for big PDF files.  (Implies -struct.)
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82       -url   Print all URLs in the PDF. Only the URL types supported by  Pop‐
83              pler  are  listed.   Currently,  this is limited to Annotations.
84              Note: only URLs referenced by the PDF objects such as Link Anno‐
85              tations  are listed. pdfinfo does not attempt to extract strings
86              matching http://... from the text content.
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88       -isodates
89              Prints dates in ISO-8601 format (including the time zone).
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91       -rawdates
92              Prints the raw (undecoded) date strings, directly from  the  PDF
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95       -dests Print a list of all named destinations. If a page range is spec‐
96              ified using "-f" and "-l", only destinations in the  page  range
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99       -enc encoding-name
100              Sets  the  encoding  to  use  for  text output. This defaults to
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103       -listenc
104              Lits the available encodings
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106       -opw password
107              Specify the owner password for the  PDF  file.   Providing  this
108              will bypass all security restrictions.
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110       -upw password
111              Specify the user password for the PDF file.
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113       -v     Print copyright and version information.
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115       -h     Print usage information.  (-help and --help are equivalent.)
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EXIT CODES

118       The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
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120       0      No error.
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122       1      Error opening a PDF file.
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124       2      Error opening an output file.
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126       3      Error related to PDF permissions.
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AUTHOR

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

135       pdfdetach(1), pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1),  pdftocairo(1),  pdftohtml(1),
136       pdftoppm(1),  pdftops(1), pdftotext(1) pdfseparate(1), pdfsig(1), pdfu‐
137       nite(1)
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