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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.
• 1
      Error opening a PDF file.
• 2
      Error opening an output file.
• 3
      Error related to PDF permissions.
• 99
      Other error.

The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC.

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