pdfinfo(1)pdfinfo(1)NAMEpdfinfo - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor
(version 3.02)
SYNOPSISpdfinfo [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)
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, typically /usr/local/etc/xpdfrc
(but this location can be changed when pdfinfo is built). See the
xpdfrc(5) man page for details.
OPTIONS
Many of the following options can be set with configuration file com-
mands. 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 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.)
-enc encoding-name
Sets the encoding to use for text output. The encoding-name
must be defined with the unicodeMap command (see xpdfrc(5)).
This defaults to "Latin1" (which is a built-in encoding). [con-
fig 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 1996-2007 Glyph &
Cog, LLC.
SEE ALSOxpdf(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdffonts(1), pdftoppm(1), pdfim-
ages(1), xpdfrc(5)
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
27 February 2007 pdfinfo(1)
