Get PDF Metadata

PDF documents often contain valuable metadata that describes document content, authorship, and permissions. Aspose.PDF provides a convenient API to retrieve both standard and custom metadata properties. This code snippet how to use the PdfFileInfo class to inspect PDF files programmatically, including step-by-step examples in Python.

1. Load the PDF file.
2. Retrieve standard metadata.
3. Check PDF status and security.
4. Retrieve custom metadata.

import aspose.pdf as ap
import aspose.pdf.facades as pdf_facades
from io import FileIO

import sys
from os import path

sys.path.append(path.join(path.dirname(__file__), ".."))

from config import set_license, initialize_data_dir


def get_pdf_metadata(infile):

    # Get and display PDF information
    pdf_info = pdf_facades.PdfFileInfo(infile)
    print(f"Subject: {pdf_info.subject}")
    print(f"Title: {pdf_info.title}")
    print(f"Keywords: {pdf_info.keywords}")
    print(f"Creator: {pdf_info.creator}")
    print(f"Creation Date: {pdf_info.creation_date}")
    print(f"Modification Date: {pdf_info.mod_date}")

    # Check PDF status
    print(f"Is Valid PDF: {pdf_info.is_pdf_file}")
    print(f"Is Encrypted: {pdf_info.is_encrypted}")
    print(f"Has Open Password: {pdf_info.has_open_password}")
    print(f"Has Edit Password: {pdf_info.has_edit_password}")
    print(f"Is Portfolio: {pdf_info.has_collection}")

    # Retrieve and display a specific custom attribute
    reviewer = pdf_info.get_meta_info("Reviewer")
    print(f"Reviewer: {reviewer if reviewer else 'No Reviewer metadata found.'}")