Copyright 1999-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC
pdfinfo - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor (version 3.00) pdfinfo [options] [ PDF-file ] 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:

In addition, the following information is printed:

-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.)

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 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC. pdftops (1), pdftotext (1), pdffonts (1), pdftoppm (1), pdfimages (1),