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apilayer/pdfinfo
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pdfinfo PHP wrapper

1.2(6y ago)1131MITPHP

Since Mar 20Pushed 6y agoCompare

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Simple PHP wrapper to the pdfinfo unix tool.

Inspired by

What is pdfinfo
===============

[](#what-is-pdfinfo)

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

[http://linuxcommand.org/man\_pages/pdfinfo1.html](http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/pdfinfo1.html)

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

Installation
============

[](#installation)

1. Install pdfinfo
------------------

[](#1-install-pdfinfo)

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

```

2. Install the library
----------------------

[](#2-install-the-library)

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

```
composer require apilayer/pdfinfo

```

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

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
```

Exceptions
==========

[](#exceptions)

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

- OpenPDFException
- OpenOutputException
- PDFPermissionException
- OtherException

Check the [official documentation](https://www.xpdfreader.com/pdfinfo-man.html) for more information.

Reference
=========

[](#reference)

Currently this library supports the following metadata:

- title
- author
- creator
- producer
- creationDate
- modDate
- tagged
- form
- pages
- encrypted
- pageSize
- pageSizes
- fileSize
- optimized
- PDFVersion
- pageRot
- pageRots

Environment variables configuration:

- `PDFINFO_BIN` - location of PDFInfo executable
- `PDFINFO_PAGE_LIMIT` - last page to process, defaults to 999

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity68

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 76.3% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~218 days

Recently: every ~381 days

Total

8

Last Release

2545d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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