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# pdfinfo - Unix, Linux Command

# 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 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 xpdfrc(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.

Tag | Description
--- | ---
-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 xpdfrc(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:

Tag | Description
--- | ---
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)

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