PDFtk | View PDF field information from command line

Author - Kiran Preet
20.02.2017
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Solution: If you have a pdf and you do not know the names of the fields used in the pdf just follow these steps:

1.   Install pdftk (search online).
2.   Open the command prompt, run the command:

pdftk YourPdf.pdf dump_data_fields

Using Above command you will get information like:

Field type
Field name
Field flag
Field Justification
Field State Option

You will get output like this:
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Also if you want to save this output in txt file then use following command:

pdftk YourPdf.pdf dump_data_fields output newFile.txt

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