pdfinfo(1) General Commands Manual pdfinfo(1)

NAME
       pdfinfo - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor
       (version 3.03)

SYNOPSIS
       pdfinfo [options] [PDF-file]

DESCRIPTION
       Pdfinfo prints the contents of the ´Info' dictionary (plus  some  other
       useful information) from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

       The ´Info' dictionary contains the following values:

              title
              subject
              keywords
              author
              creator
              producer
              creation date
              modification date

       In addition, the following information is printed:

              tagged (yes/no)
              form (AcroForm / XFA / none)
              javascript (yes/no)
              page count
              encrypted flag (yes/no)
              print and copy permissions (if encrypted)
              page size
              file size
              linearized (yes/no)
              PDF version
              metadata (only if requested)

OPTIONS
       -f number
              Specifies  the  first  page  to  examine.  If multiple pages are
              requested using the "-f" and "-l"  options,  the  size  of  each
              requested  page  (and,  optionally,  the bounding boxes for each
              requested page) are printed.  Otherwise, only page one is  exam‐
              ined.

       -l number
              Specifies the last page to examine.

       -box   Prints the page box bounding boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox,
              TrimBox, and ArtBox.

       -meta  Prints document-level metadata.  (This is the "Metadata"  stream
              from the PDF file's Catalog object.)

       +.B -js
              +Prints  all  JavaScript  in the PDF.  +.TP -rawdates Prints the
              raw (undecoded) date strings, directly from the PDF file.

       -enc encoding-name
              Sets the encoding to use  for  text  output.  This  defaults  to
              "UTF-8".

       -listenc
              Lits the available encodings

       -opw password
              Specify  the  owner  password  for the PDF file.  Providing this
              will bypass all security restrictions.

       -upw password
              Specify the user password for the PDF file.

       -v     Print copyright and version information.

       -h     Print usage information.  (-help and help are equivalent.)

EXIT CODES
       The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:

       0      No error.

       1      Error opening a PDF file.

       2      Error opening an output file.

       3      Error related to PDF permissions.

       99     Other error.

AUTHOR
       The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph  &
       Cog, LLC.

SEE ALSO
       pdfdetach(1),  pdffonts(1),  pdfimages(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1),
       pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1)



                                15 August 2011                      pdfinfo(1)