PDF info viewer

PDF info viewer surfaces fourteen fields for every document you drop on it. The structural ones come first: file name and size, page count, the first page's size in PDF points with a millimetre equivalent, and the format version taken from the file header. Then the fonts the pages reference, gathered from each page's resource dictionary and from any nested form XObjects inside it. Then the six metadata strings a producer may or may not fill in — Producer, Creator, Title, Author, Subject and Keywords. Finally two yes-or-no facts: whether the document is encrypted, and whether it contains interactive form fields. A rendered thumbnail of page one sits beside the table so you can see the document you are reading numbers about. Nothing is written, converted or downloaded; this is a read-only inspection.

Empty metadata rows mean the application that produced the PDF never wrote those fields, not that the inspection failed. Title, Author, Subject and Keywords are optional entries in the document information dictionary, and most exporters leave them blank — browsers printing to PDF, phone scanner apps and many report generators fill in Producer and Creator and stop there. A dash in the table is therefore a fact about the file, not an error. It matters more than it looks: some document management systems index on Title, and a blank Title makes a file effectively invisible to search inside them. If you need those fields populated, PDFChamp's Edit PDF metadata tool writes them into the same dictionary, and re-inspecting afterwards confirms the change landed.

The Rotated badge means the first page carries a rotation entry, and the Varies badge means the document's pages are not all the same size. PDF stores page geometry separately from the rotation a reader should apply, so a page can be recorded as 842 by 595 points and still display upright as A4 portrait. This tool reports the displayed geometry — the visible box after rotation — and adds the badge so you know a rotation is baked into the file rather than wondering why the numbers look transposed. The amber Varies pill appears when at least two pages differ in size, which is normal for merged documents mixing portrait text pages with landscape drawings, and is exactly the thing a print shop or a binding service needs to be told about in advance.

Font names in the table come from each font object's BaseFont entry inside the PDF, which is often not the name your design tool showed you. Embedded subsets are prefixed with a six-letter tag such as ABCDEF+Helvetica; the viewer strips that tag so one family is reported once instead of once per subset. A family you set to bold or italic is usually a separate BaseFont entry, so a three-weight document can list three names. Type 3 fonts, which store glyphs as drawing instructions rather than outlines, are labelled as such because they carry no useful family name. Only the first twelve names are shown, with a “+N more” counter after that. If the row instead says the fonts could not be read, the document's object graph could not be walked — the rest of the table is still valid.

Encrypted PDFs are detected and, in most cases, still inspected. The tool first tries to open the file normally; if the parser reports encryption, it reopens the document with that flag ignored and marks the Encrypted row Yes in amber. How much you then see depends on the file. Many PDFs encrypt only the content streams, leaving page count, page geometry and the information dictionary readable, so the table fills in as usual. Others encrypt the metadata too, and those rows come back blank. Nothing here removes protection or attempts to guess a password — it reports the state it found. If you need an unlocked copy and you know the password, PDFChamp's Remove PDF password tool produces one, after which every field in this table becomes readable.

PDF info viewer is free, needs no account, and never uploads the document you inspect. The file is read straight off your disk through the browser's file API and parsed inside the tab; a second in-page parser is used only to draw the thumbnail and read the format version. There is no server that could receive a PDF, which is easy to confirm — open your browser's network panel, drop a file in, and watch the table fill while no request carries it anywhere. That matters more here than on most tools, because the documents people want to inspect tend to be the sensitive ones: signed contracts, medical scans, filings under seal. The tool also produces no download at all, so there is no output file that could carry a watermark or a credit line.