dumppdf - dumps internal contents of a PDF files

Authors

JakubWilk <jwilk@debian.org>
           Wrote this manual page for the Debian system.

       YusukeShinyama <yusuke@cs.nyu.edu>
           Author of PDFMiner and its original HTML documentation.

dumppdf                                            12/17/2022                                         DUMPPDF(1)

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

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

Name

       dumppdf - dumps internal contents of a PDF files

Options

-a
           Dump all the objects. By default only the document trailer is printed.

       -iobjno[,objno,...]
           Specifies PDF object IDs to display. Comma-separated IDs, or multiple -i options are accepted.

       -ppageno[,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.

       -Ppassword
           Provides the user password to access PDF contents.

       -d
           Increase the debug level.