What is pdfinfo

pdfinfo is an unix tool helping extract information from pdf files.

You can get metadata, page count and rotation for every page, etc.

Installation

First you need to have pdfinfo in your system.

For ubuntu, there's an easy way for doing this:

sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

You can just download the file to your project, or install it via composer:

composer require apilayer/pdfinfo

Just pass the path to the pdf file to the constructor, and you can get metadata from its properties immediately:

$pdf = new PDFInfo('path/to/the/pdf');
echo $pdf->title; // Get the title
echo $pdf->pages; // Get the number of pages

This library throws 4 kind of exceptions to represent the official exit codes.

Check the official documentation for more information.

Currently this library supports the following metadata:

Environment variables configuration: