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.\" Copyright 1999-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC
.TH pdfinfo 1 "22 January 2004"
.SH NAME
pdfinfo \- Portable Document Format (PDF) document information
extractor (version 3.00)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pdfinfo
[options]
.RI [ PDF-file ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Pdfinfo
prints the contents of the \'Info' dictionary (plus some other useful
information) from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
.PP
The \'Info' dictionary contains the following values:
.PP
.RS
title
.RE
.RS
subject
.RE
.RS
keywords
.RE
.RS
author
.RE
.RS
creator
.RE
.RS
producer
.RE
.RS
creation date
.RE
.RS
modification date
.RE
.PP
In addition, the following information is printed:
.PP
.RS
tagged (yes/no)
.RE
.RS
page count
.RE
.RS
encrypted flag (yes/no)
.RE
.RS
print and copy permissions (if encrypted)
.RE
.RS
page size
.RE
.RS
file size
.RE
.RS
linearized (yes/no)
.RE
.RS
PDF version
.RE
.RS
metadata (only if requested)
.RE
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-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.
.TP
.BI \-l " number"
Specifies the last page to examine.
.TP
.B \-box
Prints the page box bounding boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox,
TrimBox, and ArtBox.
.TP
.B \-meta
Prints document-level metadata. (This is the "Metadata" stream from
the PDF file's Catalog object.)
.TP
.BI \-enc " encoding-name"
Sets the encoding to use for text output. This defaults to "UTF-8".
.TP
.B \-listenc
Lits the available encodings
.TP
.BI \-opw " password"
Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will
bypass all security restrictions.
.TP
.BI \-upw " password"
Specify the user password for the PDF file.
.TP
.B \-v
Print copyright and version information.
.TP
.B \-h
Print usage information.
.RB ( \-help
and
.B \-\-help
are equivalent.)
.SH EXIT CODES
The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
.TP
0
No error.
.TP
1
Error opening a PDF file.
.TP
2
Error opening an output file.
.TP
3
Error related to PDF permissions.
.TP
99
Other error.
.SH AUTHOR
The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph &
Cog, LLC.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR pdftops (1),
.BR pdftotext (1),
.BR pdffonts (1),
.BR pdftoppm (1),
.BR pdfimages (1),