NAME
pdfinfo - Portable Document Format (PDF) document
information extractor (version 3.00)
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
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)
CONFIGURATION FILE
Pdfinfo reads a configuration file at
startup. It first tries to find the user's private config file,
~/.xpdfrc. If that doesn't exist, it looks for a system-wide config
file, /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc. See the (5)
man page for details.
OPTIONS
Many of the following options can be set with
configuration file commands. These are listed in square brackets
with the description of the corresponding command line option.
- -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. The
encoding-name must be defined with the unicodeMap command
(see (5)).
This defaults to "Latin1" (which is a built-in encoding). [config
file: textEncoding]
- -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.
- -cfg config-file
- Read config-file in place of ~/.xpdfrc or the
system-wide config 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
1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
SEE ALSO
xpdf(1),
pdftops(1),
pdftotext(1),
pdffonts(1),
pdftoppm(1),
pdfimages(1),
(5)