• 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)
• 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.)

  -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. 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 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
• SEE ALSO
  
  pdftops(1) , pdftotext(1) , pdffonts(1) , pdftoppm(1) , pdfimages(1) ,

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