[vox-tech] Getting document name from inside a PDF

Bill Kendrick vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 13 Apr 2003 23:16:01 -0700


On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 11:09:50PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 10:39:18PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> > 
> > Do PDFs somehow store a 'document name' inside them?
> 
> Digging around more, it seems, yes... they do :^)

*sigh*

Now I feel st00pid for not trying this earlier :^)

  strings *.pdf | grep pdf:Title

seems to do what I need.  At least for the collection of PDFs I'm
dealing with. :^)


-bill!