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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.

dumppdf 							    08/24/2011								DUMPPDF(1)