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pdfinfo − Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor (version 3.00) |
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pdfinfo [options] [PDF-file] |
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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: |
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title |
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subject |
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keywords |
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author |
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creator |
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producer |
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creation date |
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modification date |
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In addition, the following information is printed: |
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tagged (yes/no) |
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page count |
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encrypted flag (yes/no) |
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print and copy permissions (if encrypted) |
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page size |
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file size |
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linearized (yes/no) |
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PDF version |
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metadata (only if requested) |
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−f number |
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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 |
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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 file’s Catalog object.) |
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−enc encoding-name |
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Sets the encoding to use for text output. This defaults to "UTF-8". |
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−listenc |
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Lits the available encodings |
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−opw password |
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Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will bypass all security restrictions. |
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−upw password |
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Specify the user password for the PDF 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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The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes: |
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0 |
No error. |
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1 |
Error opening a PDF file. |
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2 |
Error opening an output file. |
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3 |
Error related to PDF permissions. |
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99 |
Other error. |
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The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC. |
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pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdffonts(1), pdftoppm(1), pdfimages(1), |