# 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)