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DUMPPDF(1) PDFMiner Manual DUMPPDF(1)

NAME

dumppdf - dumps internal contents of a PDF files

SYNOPSIS

dumppdf [option...] file...

DESCRIPTION

dumppdf dumps the internal contents of a PDF file in pseudo-XML format. This program is primarily for debugging purposes, but it's also possible to extract some meaningful contents

OPTIONS

-a
Dump all the objects. By default only the document trailer is printed.
-i objno[,objno,...]
Specifies PDF object IDs to display. Comma-separated IDs, or multiple -i options are accepted.
-p pageno[,pageno,...]
Specifies the comma-separated list of the page numbers to be extracted. Page numbers start at one. By default, it extracts text from all the pages.
-r, -b, -t
Specifies the output format of stream contents. Because the contents of stream objects can be very large, they are omitted when none of the options above is specified.
With -r option, the “raw” stream contents are dumped without decompression. With -b option, the decompressed contents are dumped as a binary blob. With -t option, the decompressed contents are dumped in a text format, similar to repr() manner. When -r or -b option is given, no stream header is displayed for the ease of saving it to a file.
-T
Show the table of contents.
-P password
Provides the user password to access PDF contents.
-d
Increase the debug level.

EXAMPLES

Dump all the headers and contents, except stream objects: 
$  dumppdf -a test.pdf
Dump the table of contents: 
$  dumppdf -T test.pdf
Extract a JPEG image: 
$  dumppdf -r -i6 test.pdf > image.jpeg

SEE ALSO

pdf2txt(1)

AUTHORS

Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Wrote this manual page for the Debian system.
Yusuke Shinyama <yusuke@cs.nyu.edu>
Author of PDFMiner and its original HTML documentation.
08/24/2011 dumppdf