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.

       If PDF-file is '-', it reads the PDF file from stdin.

       The 'Info' dictionary contains the following values:

              title
              subject
              keywords
              author
              creator
              producer
              creation date
              modification date

       In addition, the following information is printed:

              custom metadata (yes/no)
              metadata stream (yes/no)
              tagged (yes/no)
              userproperties (yes/no)
              suspects (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)

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

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
              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.)

       -custom
              Prints custom and standard metadata.

       -js    Prints all JavaScript in the PDF.

       -struct
              Prints the logical document structure of a Tagged-PDF file.

       -struct-text
              Print the textual content along with the document structure of a
              Tagged-PDF file.  Note that extracting text this way might be
              slow for big PDF files.  (Implies -struct.)

       -url   Print all URLs in the PDF. Only the URL types supported by
              Poppler are listed.  Currently, this is limited to Annotations.
              Note: only URLs referenced by the PDF objects such as Link
              Annotations are listed. pdfinfo does not attempt to extract
              strings matching http://... from the text content.

       -isodates
              Prints dates in ISO-8601 format (including the time zone).

       -rawdates
              Prints the raw (undecoded) date strings, directly from the PDF
              file.

       -dests Print a list of all named destinations. If a page range is
              specified using "-f" and "-l", only destinations in the page
              range are listed.

       -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) pdfseparate(1), pdfsig(1),
       pdfunite(1)

                                15 August 2011                      pdfinfo(1)