# phpman > man > pdfinfo(1)

> **TLDR:** Portable Document Format (PDF) file information viewer.
>
- Print PDF file information:
  `pdfinfo {{path/to/file.pdf}}`
- Specify user password for PDF file to bypass security restrictions:
  `pdfinfo -upw {{password}} {{path/to/file.pdf}}`
- Specify owner password for PDF file to bypass security restrictions:
  `pdfinfo -opw {{password}} {{path/to/file.pdf}}`

*Source: tldr-pages*

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

## SYNOPSIS
       **pdfinfo** [options] [_PDF-file_]

## 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 informa‐
       tion.  The  'Info'  dictionary  and  related data listed above is not printed. At most one of
       these five options may be used.

## OPTIONS
### -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
              Specifies the last page to examine.

### -box

### -meta
              Catalog object.)

### -custom
              Prints custom and standard metadata.

### -js

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

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

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

### -dests
              "-l", only destinations in the page range are listed.

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

### -listenc
              Lits the available encodings

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

### -upw
              Specify the user password for the PDF file.

### -v

### -h -help --help

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

## SEE ALSO
       [**pdfdetach**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfdetach/1/markdown),   [**pdffonts**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdffonts/1/markdown),   [**pdfimages**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfimages/1/markdown),   [**pdftocairo**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdftocairo/1/markdown),   [**pdftohtml**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdftohtml/1/markdown),    [**pdftoppm**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdftoppm/1/markdown),
       [**pdftops**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdftops/1/markdown), [**pdftotext**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdftotext/1/markdown) [**pdfseparate**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfseparate/1/markdown), [**pdfsig**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfsig/1/markdown), [**pdfunite**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfunite/1/markdown)



                                           15 August 2011                                 [pdfinfo(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdfinfo/1/markdown)