Image::ExifTool::PDF(3pm)

Image::ExifTool::PDF3pm

Read pdf meta information

Usage

This module is loaded automatically by Image::ExifTool when required.

Overview

This code reads meta information from PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) files. It supports object streams introduced in PDF-1.5 but only with a limited set of Filter and Predictor algorithms, however all standard encryption methods through PDF-2.0 are supported, including AESV2 (AES-128) and AESV3 (AES-256).

References

<http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/pdf/index_reference.html>
Crypt::RC4
<http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf>
<http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/adobe_supplement_iso32000.pdf>
<http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc3454>
<http://www.armware.dk/RFC/rfc/rfc4013.html>

Releases

11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13
  11. Arch

Author

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

From perl-image-exiftool 13.55-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.