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Do any of your products allow to read/find metadata values from pdf file? How to extract and dump metadata from PDF file?

Posted on 2015/01/18Author VeryPDF / 603 Views

Do any of your products allow to read/find metadata values from pdf file?

If so what is it and are there any examples for vb.net?

Thanks
Customer
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Do any of your products allow to read/find metadata values from pdf file? How to extract and dump metadata from PDF file?

Do any of your products allow to read/find metadata values from pdf file? How to extract and dump metadata from PDF file?
Yes, you can use our "Advanced PDF Tools Command Line" to extract metadata values from pdf file, "Advanced PDF Tools Command Line" can be downloaded from following web page,

https://www.verypdf.com/app/advanced-pdf-tools/try-and-buy.html#buy-cmd
https://www.verypdf.com/pdfinfoeditor/advanced_pdf_tools_cmd.zip

after you download it, you can run following command line to extract metadata information from a PDF file,

pdftools.exe -r -i E:\test.pdf

You will get detailed information on console,

PDF FileName : E:\test.pdf
PDF Version : 1.4
PDF Security : 0
PDF PageCount : 1
MediaBox :
page 0 MediaBox:[0 0 709 11457]
CropBox :
OpenAction : Magnification: Default
Title :
Keywords :
Subject :
Creator : VeryPDF HTML Converter, Build: Feb 28 2007
Author :
CreatedDate : D:20070312110504+08'00'
Producer : VeryPDF HTML Converter (https://www.verypdf.com)
ModifyDate : D:20070312110504+08'00'
SavedBy :
Rotate :
PageMode :
ViewReference :
PageLayout :
MetaData :
<?xpacket begin="锘? id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?>
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="DynaPDF 2.0.25.306, http://www.dynaforms.com">
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<rdf:Description rdf:about="" xmlns:pdf="http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/"> <pdf:Producer>VeryPDF HTML Converter (https://www.verypdf.com)</pdf:Producer> </rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:about="" xmlns:xap="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/"> <xap:CreateDate>2007-03-12T11:05:04+08:00</xap:CreateDate> <xap:CreatorTool>VeryPDF HTML Converter, Build: Feb 28 2007</xap:CreatorTool> <xap:MetadataDate>2007-03-12T11:05:04+08:00</xap:MetadataDate> <xap:ModifyDate>2007-03-12T11:05:04+08:00</xap:ModifyDate>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:about="" xmlns:xmpMM="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/"> <xmpMM:DocumentID>uuid:565fed52-09ef-3fb9-b4e6c6c2765ab62d</xmpMM:DocumentID>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
</x:xmpmeta>
<?xpacket end="w"?>

This is trial version, please go to www.verypdf.com to purchase the full version, thank you.

File Pages Count: 1.
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You can capture redirect these information to your application by CreateProcess, CreatePipe, ReadPipe functions, then you can reuse these information easily.

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