pdfls is a small utility to debug a PDF file.
Project description
pdfls
pdfls is a small utility to debug a PDF file.
pdftitle uses pdfminer.six project to parse PDF document.
Installation
pip install pdfls
Usage
pdfls -p <pdf-file>
displays the structure of the PDF file.
For example:
$ pdfls -p knuth65.pdf
catalog.objnum: 713
outlines:
pagetree.objnum: 709
page[1].objnum: 715
xobject.types: [ Im1=XObject.Image/CCITTFaxDecode.1710x2580 ]
content.length: [ 654/2094 548/2092 556/2090 600/2094 605/2103 595/2090 560/2096 615/2066 ]
page[2].objnum: 1
xobject.types: [ Im1=XObject.Image/CCITTFaxDecode.1710x2580 ]
content.length: [ 113/134 4054/22698 41/39 11/3 ]
page[3].objnum: 13
xobject.types: [ Im1=XObject.Image/CCITTFaxDecode.1710x2580 ]
content.length: [ 172/332 2784/14487 79/80 41/39 11/3 ]
...
...
shows the catalog, page tree and first 3 page objects. For each page object, xobjects and contents (content streams) are shown. For each XObject, its type.subtype/filter.widthxheight is shown. For each content stream, its raw data len/decoded data len is shown.
If -i
option is given, it also shows the instructions.
More info can be seen in verbose mode with -v
. This is mostly for development and debugging of pdfls.
Changes
0.1:
- first public release.
- probably unstable version, only for testing.
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