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Any user searching for a solution to extract a comprehensive list of attributes from a PDF file
About 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. Support for PDF 1.7/ISO 32000 (Acrobat 9, X, DC). Element now shows CMYK separations that are actually used by text and vector elements. The new element that shows the number of shading objects in a PDF file. A restored output being written to stdout if -o option not used, recommend using -quiet option when writing to stdout. Fixed calculation of page labels. An improved text extraction algorithm. Calculates color simulation values for ICCBased, separation and DeviceN colorspaces. Improved Unicode, ISO Latin, and AdobePDF character set support. Fonts usage (name, type, embedding & subset status, use of Unicode). Asset management system, extract page count, metadata, font & image information. Document management, determine text or image-only documents, and extract comments.
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