pdfinfo - Man Page

• Print PDF file information: pdfinfo path/to/file.pdf
• Specify user password for PDF file to bypass security restrictions: pdfinfo -upw password path/to/file.pdf
• Specify owner password for PDF file to bypass security restrictions: pdfinfo -opw password path/to/file.pdf

tldr.sh

pdfinfo [options] [PDF-file]

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:

In addition, the following information is printed:

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.

-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.)

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.

The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC.

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