Section 1 · User commands

pdfinfo.1

Package: poppler-utils

pdfinfo

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXIT CODES
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO

NAME

pdfinfo − Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor (version 3.03)

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.

If PDF-file is ´-’, it reads the PDF file from stdin.

The ´Info’ dictionary contains the following values:

title
subject
keywords
author
creator
producer
creation date
modification date

In addition, the following information is printed:

custom metadata (yes/no)
metadata stream (yes/no)
tagged (yes/no)
userproperties (yes/no)
suspects (yes/no)
form (AcroForm / XFA / none)
javascript (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)

The options −listenc, −meta, −js, −struct, and −struct-text only print the requested information. The ’Info’ dictionary and related data listed above is not printed. At most one of these five options may be used.

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.)

−custom

Prints custom and standard metadata.


	−js		Prints all JavaScript in the PDF.

−struct

Prints the logical document structure of a Tagged-PDF file.

−struct-text

Print the textual content along with the document structure of a Tagged-PDF file. Note that extracting text this way might be slow for big PDF files. (Implies −struct.)


	−url		Print all URLs in the PDF. Only the URL types supported by Poppler are listed. Currently, this is limited to Annotations. Note: only URLs referenced by the PDF objects such as Link Annotations are listed. pdfinfo does not attempt to extract strings matching http://… from the text content.

−isodates

Prints dates in ISO-8601 format (including the time zone).

−rawdates

Prints the raw (undecoded) date strings, directly from the PDF file.


	−dests		Print a list of all named destinations. If a page range is specified using “−f” and “−l”, only destinations in the page range are listed.

−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.