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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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