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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
BUGS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO

NAME

pdfinfo ? Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor (version 0.91)

SYNOPSIS

pdfinfo [options] [PDF-file]

DESCRIPTION

Pdftoinfo 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:

title

subject

keywords

author

creator

producer

creation date

modification date

In addition, the following information is printed:

page count

encrypted flag (yes/no)

print and copy permissions (if encrypted)

linearized (yes/no)

OPTIONS

?upw password

Specify the user password for the PDF file.

?v

Print copyright and version information.

?h

Print usage information. (?help is equivalent.)

BUGS

No known bugs.

AUTHOR

The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2000 Derek B. Noonburg (derekn@foolabs.com).

SEE ALSO

xpdf(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdftopbm(1), pdfimages(1)
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/


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