| .\" Copyright 1999-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC |
| .TH pdfinfo 1 "15 August 2011" |
| .SH NAME |
| pdfinfo \- Portable Document Format (PDF) document information |
| extractor (version 3.03) |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B pdfinfo |
| [options] |
| .RI [ PDF-file ] |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B Pdfinfo |
| prints the contents of the \'Info' dictionary (plus some other useful |
| information) from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. |
| .PP |
| The \'Info' dictionary contains the following values: |
| .PP |
| .RS |
| title |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| subject |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| keywords |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| author |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| creator |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| producer |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| creation date |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| modification date |
| .RE |
| .PP |
| In addition, the following information is printed: |
| .PP |
| .RS |
| tagged (yes/no) |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| form (AcroForm / XFA / none) |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| javascript (yes/no) |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| page count |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| encrypted flag (yes/no) |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| print and copy permissions (if encrypted) |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| page size |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| file size |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| linearized (yes/no) |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| PDF version |
| .RE |
| .RS |
| metadata (only if requested) |
| .RE |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .BI \-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. |
| .TP |
| .BI \-l " number" |
| Specifies the last page to examine. |
| .TP |
| .B \-box |
| Prints the page box bounding boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox, |
| TrimBox, and ArtBox. |
| .TP |
| .B \-meta |
| Prints document-level metadata. (This is the "Metadata" stream from |
| the PDF file's Catalog object.) |
| .TP |
| +.B \-js |
| +Prints all JavaScript in the PDF. |
| +.TP |
| .B \-rawdates |
| Prints the raw (undecoded) date strings, directly from the PDF file. |
| .TP |
| .BI \-enc " encoding-name" |
| Sets the encoding to use for text output. This defaults to "UTF-8". |
| .TP |
| .B \-listenc |
| Lits the available encodings |
| .TP |
| .BI \-opw " password" |
| Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will |
| bypass all security restrictions. |
| .TP |
| .BI \-upw " password" |
| Specify the user password for the PDF file. |
| .TP |
| .B \-v |
| Print copyright and version information. |
| .TP |
| .B \-h |
| Print usage information. |
| .RB ( \-help |
| and |
| .B \-\-help |
| are equivalent.) |
| .SH EXIT CODES |
| The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes: |
| .TP |
| 0 |
| No error. |
| .TP |
| 1 |
| Error opening a PDF file. |
| .TP |
| 2 |
| Error opening an output file. |
| .TP |
| 3 |
| Error related to PDF permissions. |
| .TP |
| 99 |
| Other error. |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & |
| Cog, LLC. |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR pdfdetach (1), |
| .BR pdffonts (1), |
| .BR pdfimages (1), |
| .BR pdftocairo (1), |
| .BR pdftohtml (1), |
| .BR pdftoppm (1), |
| .BR pdftops (1), |
| .BR pdftotext (1) |
