mutool show

The show command will print the specified objects and streams to stdout. Streams are decoded and non-printable characters are represented with a period by default.

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mutool show [options] input.pdf ...

[options] Options are as follows:

``-p`` password
	Use the specified password if the file is encrypted.
``-o`` output
	The output file name instead of using ``stdout``. Should be a plain text file format.
``-e``
	Leave stream contents in their original form.
``-b``
	Print only stream contents, as raw binary data.
``-g``
	Print only object, one line per object, suitable for grep.
``-r``
	Force repair before showing any objects.
``-L``
	Show object labels (how to reach an object from the root)

input.pdf Input file name. Must be a PDF file.

... Specify what to show by using one of the following keywords, or a path to an object:

``trailer``
	Print the trailer dictionary.

``xref``
	Print the cross reference table.

``pages``
	List the object numbers for every page.

``grep``
	Print all the objects in the file in a compact one-line format
	suitable for piping to grep.

``outline``
	Print the outline (also known as "table of contents" or
	"bookmarks").

``js``
	Print document level Javascript.

``form``
	Print form objects.

``<path>``
	A path starts with either an object number, a property in the
	trailer dictionary, or the keyword "trailer" or "pages".
	Separate elements with a period '.' or slash '/'. Select a page
	object by using pages/N where N is the page number. The first
	page is number 1.

``*``
	You can use ``*`` as an element to iterate over all array
	indices or dictionary properties in an object. Thus you can
	have multiple keywords with for your ``mutool show`` query.

Examples

Find the number of pages in a document:

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mutool show input.pdf trailer/Root/Pages/Count

Print the content stream data of the first page:

.. code-block:: bash

mutool show -b input.pdf pages/1/Contents

Print the names of all the font resources on all the pages:

.. code-block:: bash

mutool show input.pdf pages/*/Resources/Font/*/BaseFont

Show all JPEG compressed stream objects:

.. code-block:: bash

mutool show input.pdf grep | grep '/Filter/DCTDecode'