Get document info

GroupDocs.Conversion allows to get basic document information (like pages count) for every supported document type, which may be useful for converting part of source document or per-page conversion.
Along with this GroupDocs.Conversion provides additional information for the following document types:

  • CAD drawings - collection of layouts and layers;
  • Email - attachments count, is html body, is encrypted, is signed;
  • PDF document - pages count, is landscaped, is encrypted, author and creation date;
  • Image - width, height, image format;
  • Presentation document - slides count, author, creation date and presentation format;
  • Spreadsheet document - worksheets count, author and creation date;
  • Wordprocessing document - pages count, lines count, words count, author and creation date.

Here is a code snippet to demonstrate how to obtain document info for PDF document.

Converter converter = new Converter(("sample.pdf");
IDocumentInfo info = converter.getDocumentInfo();
PdfDocumentInfo pdfInfo = (PdfDocumentInfo) info;

System.out.print("Author: "+ pdfInfo.getAuthor());
System.out.print("Creation date: "+ pdfInfo.getCreationDate());
System.out.print("Title: "+ pdfInfo.getTitle());
System.out.print("Version: "+ pdfInfo.getVersion());
System.out.print("Pages count: "+ pdfInfo.getPagesCount());
System.out.print("Width: "+ pdfInfo.getWidth());
System.out.print("Height: "+ pdfInfo.getHeight());
System.out.print("Is landscaped: "+ pdfInfo.getIsLandscape());
System.out.print("Is Encrypted: "+ pdfInfo.getIsEncrypted());

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Advanced Usage Topics

To learn more about convert file features, please refer to the advanced usage section.

GitHub Examples

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

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