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Title: Is it possible to get pdf metadata page by page ?
Post by: Koutaax on February 28, 2023, 12:21:35 PM
Hello, I am new to pdf metadata extraction and I would like to extract metadata page by page from a pdf. I don't even know if it's possible. But if it is, can someone help me with that. I would like to understand how this is working not just the answer to my question. Thank you !
Title: Re: Is it possible to get pdf metadata page by page ?
Post by: Phil Harvey on February 28, 2023, 12:56:28 PM
You can use the -v2 option to extract probably more than you would ever want to know about the PDF, but I don't think you'll find per-page metadata that is very interesting.

- Phil
Title: Re: Is it possible to get pdf metadata page by page ?
Post by: StarGeek on February 28, 2023, 02:01:12 PM
I came across a tool for looking deep into a pdf a few months ago and was lucky enough to find again.

PDFAlyzer (https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/pdfalyzer) is a Python program that will output a lot of details about a PDF.  You can see discussion about it in this Reddit thread (https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/y0rnqk/the_pdfalyzer_is_a_tool_for_visualizing_the_inner/).

And when I mean lots of details, I mean a lot of details.  More than I ever needed or could make sense of.