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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 users private config file, ~/.xpdfrc. If that doesnt 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.
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-l number | |
Specifies the last page to examine.
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-box |
Prints the page box bounding boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox,
TrimBox, and ArtBox.
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-meta |
Prints document-level metadata. (This is the "Metadata" stream from
the PDF files Catalog object.)
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-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.
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-upw password | |
Specify the user password for the PDF file.
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-cfg config-file | |
Read
config-file in place of ~/.xpdfrc or the system-wide config file.
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-v |
Print copyright and version information.
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-h |
Print usage information.
(-help and
--help are equivalent.)
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EXIT CODES
The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
Tag | Description |
0
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No error.
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1
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Error opening a PDF file.
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2
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Error opening an output file.
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3
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Error related to PDF permissions.
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99
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Other error.
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AUTHOR
The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph &
Cog, LLC.
SEE ALSO
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
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