PDFspy

PDFspy is the ultimate “get info” utility for your PDF documents. It can extract a comprehensive list of attributes from a PDF file into an XML-based format.

Some examples of the many types of information PDFspy can extract:

• Page information (count, size, boxes)

• Fonts usage (name, type, embedding & subset status, use of Unicode)

• Color info including colorspaces, separations marked and ink usage and coverage calculations

• Images (size, resolution, compression, colorspace)

• Text in raw (.txt), reconstructed words, lines, paragraphs and columns

• Use of transparency, smooth shadings and patterns

• Presence (or absence) of hidden text and optional content/layers

• Hyperlinks (size, location and destination)

• Annotations (size, location, type, contents, colors)

• PDF/X compliance (including output intent details)

• Metadata (info dictionary & XMP)

• Security and Encryption settings

Example uses:

• Order management system: compare customer files to order specifications

• Asset management system: extract page count, metadata, font & image information

• Document management: determine text or image only documents, extract comments

• Preflight: extract information about colorspaces, compression & font types

• Developers: easily examine the structure of complex PDF documents

NOTE: This app requires that Apago PDFspy be installed and licensed. Download PDFspy from https://www.apagoinc.com/product/pdfspy/