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.

New version 1.1 adds several new features and enhancements including:

• Support for PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 9)
• Improved reliability with a wider variety of PDF files
• Element now shows CMYK separations that are actually used by text and vector elements
• New element that shows the number of shading objects in PDF file
• Several new checks for -validate option
• Restored output being written to stdout if -o option not used, recommend using -quiet option when writing to stdout
• Fixed calculation of page labels
• Improved text extraction algorithm
• Calculates color simulation values for ICCBased, Separation and DeviceN colorspaces
• Improved Unicode, ISO Latin and AdobePDF character set support

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)
• Colorspaces used (alternates, separation names, index bases)
• Images (size, resolution, compression, colorspace)
• 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