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read pdf document properties from terminal as seen in nautilus

From the terminal I would like to be access the data that is readable when right clicking on a pdf file and selecting "document".

Example :example

I have tried reading metadata with tools such as mminfo and pdftk but some files are password protected so they can't show me the meta data.

Help appreciated.

Solution

  • pdfinfo reveals following information for me:

    pdfinfo XY.pdf 
Title:          XY Zufriedenheitsbefragung XY: 2012/5
Producer:       Apache FOP Version SVN branches/fop-0_95
CreationDate:   Fri May 18 13:38:45 2012
Tagged:         no
Pages:          8
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      595 x 842 pts (A4)
File size:      33666 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.4

    but I don't know how it works on encrypted PDFs. But if nautilus can read them - why shouldn't a command line tool?

    When I look for pdfinfo, I get 2 alternative answers: 

    apt-cache search pdfinfo
poppler-utils - PDF-Werkzeuge (basierend auf libpoppler)
xpdf-utils - Portable Document Format (PDF) suite -- utilities