pdfinfo: A command-line tool showing information about PDF files

Sat May 2 11:25 pm EDT 2026

Installing pdfinfo on Linux

The poppler-utils package is including pdfinfo. Install it after updating the package repository index using apt command:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install poppler-utils

You can see if it's installed properly by issuing the following command:

pdfinfo -v

This should print the version information out on the screen.