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Re: Determining paper size of PDF via command-line tools?
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Jim Long |
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Re: Determining paper size of PDF via command-line tools? |
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Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:32:57 -0800 |
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 08:58:32PM +0100, Alexander Kobel wrote:
> On 01/21/2014 08:27 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> > Jim Long <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> I'd like to use a
> >> grep/awk/whatever command pipe to determine the paper size of
> >> certain PDF files.
> >
> > pdfinfo is a good bet.
>
> +1.
Thank you both. pdfinfo does what I need.
Jim
$ for f in *.pdf; do pdfinfo $f 2>/dev/null |tee $f.size | grep -w '^Page
size:'; done | sort |uniq -c
1 Page size: 595 x 842 pts (A4)
10 Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)
1 Page size: 595.279 x 841.888 pts (A4)
150 Page size: 595.28 x 841.89 pts (A4)
1 Page size: 611.999 x 791.998 pts (letter)
150 Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter)