pdfinfo(1)

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. (-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 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC.

SEE ALSO
pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1)