pdfinfo(1) General Commands Manual pdfinfo(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

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

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**pdfinfo** \[options] \[*PDF-file*]

# [DESCRIPTION](#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](#OPTIONS)

[**-f number**](#f)

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**](#l)

Specifies the last page to examine.

[**-box**](#box)

Prints the page box bounding boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox, TrimBox, and ArtBox.

[**-meta**](#meta)

Prints document-level metadata. (This is the "Metadata" stream from the PDF file's Catalog object.)

[**-custom**](#custom)

Prints custom and standard metadata.

[**-js**](#js)

Prints all JavaScript in the PDF.

[**-struct**](#struct)

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

[**-struct-text**](#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**](#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**](#isodates)

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

[**-rawdates**](#rawdates)

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

[**-dests**](#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**](#enc)

Sets the encoding to use for text output. This defaults to "UTF-8".

[**-listenc**](#listenc)

Lits the available encodings

[**-opw password**](#opw)

Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will bypass all security restrictions.

[**-upw password**](#upw)

Specify the user password for the PDF file.

[**-v**](#v)

Print copyright and version information.

[**-h**](#h)

Print usage information. (**-help** and **--help** are equivalent.)

# [EXIT CODES](#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.

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

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

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**pdfdetach**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfdetach.1), [**pdffonts**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdffonts.1), [**pdfimages**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfimages.1), [**pdftocairo**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftocairo.1), [**pdftohtml**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftohtml.1), [**pdftoppm**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftoppm.1), [**pdftops**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftops.1), [**pdftotext**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftotext.1) [**pdfseparate**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfseparate.1), [**pdfsig**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfsig.1), [**pdfunite**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfunite.1)

15 August 2011

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Document: pdfinfo(1) from poppler 26.08.0-r1 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler.git