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pdfinfo(1) |
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pdfinfo − Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor (version 3.00)
pdfinfo [options] [PDF-file]
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)
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)
−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 examined.
−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.) |
−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.) |
The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
0 |
No error. |
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1 |
Error opening a PDF file. |
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2 |
Error opening an output file. |
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3 |
Error related to PDF permissions. |
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99 |
Other error. |
The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
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