pdfinfo and other apps in the `utils` directory use the standard convention of passing "-" as the filename to instruct it to read from STDIN.
for example: # pdfinfo - < Desktop/servlet-30.pdf Alternatively you can use "fd://0" (replacing 0 with whichever FD you want to read from) On 20 May 2011 11:54, Stefano Emilio Campanini < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm using poppler from a while, I find it of high quality and very > performant also on big files, in particular the tools pdftoppm and > pdfinfo. > > The question: seems to be not possible having pdfinfo tool reading the > file from the standard input, is it true ? Or I have missed something > ? > > stefano@tinvention-notebook-asus:~$ pdfinfo < Desktop/servlet-30.pdf > pdfinfo version 0.12.4 > Copyright 2005-2009 The Poppler Developers - > http://poppler.freedesktop.org > Copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC > Usage: pdfinfo [options] <PDF-file> > -f <int> : first page to convert > -l <int> : last page to convert > -box : print the page bounding boxes > > stefano@tinvention-notebook-asus:~$ pdfinfo Desktop/servlet-30.pdf > Creator: cairo 1.7.4 (http://cairographics.org) > Producer: cairo 1.7.4 (http://cairographics.org) > Tagged: no > > > Another question, the pdfinfo help report the "-f" and "- l" > parameters saying "first page to convert" , does pdfinfo convert pages > ? Is it a mistake ? > > Thanks in advance for the help. > Stefano > > -- > Tinvention - Ingegneria Informatica - > http://tinvention.net/ > ing. Stefano E. Campanini > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler >
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