PDFspy 1.0 review

PDFspy is the ultimate “get info” utility for your PDF documents.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Apago, Inc. Buy Now Price: $300.00 Updated: 16 Dec 2005

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PDFspy is the ultimate “get info” utility for your PDF documents. It can extract a comprehensive list of attributes from a PDF file into an XML-based format.

Here are some key features of "PDFspy":
Some examples of the many types of information PDFspy can extract:
Page information (count, size, boxes)
Fonts usage (name, type, embedding & subset status, use of Unicode)
Colorspaces used (alternates, separation names, index bases)
Images (size, resolution, compression, colorspace)
Use of transparency, smooth shadings and patterns
Presence (or absence) of hidden text and optional content/layers
Hyperlinks (size, location and destination)
Annotations (size, location, type, contents, colors)
PDF/X compliance (including output intent details)
Metadata (info dictionary & XMP)
Security and Encryption settings.

Example uses:

- Asset management system: extract page count, metadata, font & image information
- Document management: determine text or image only documents, extract comments
- Preflight: extract information about colorspaces, compression & font types
- Developers: easily examine the structure of complex PDF documents.