Hi All,

Does anyone know how to get at the PDF version for a directory of PDF files. I need to list these out for an internal customer to comply with Documentum. I've tried the get-metainfo.ps1 that has been posted. Also checking get-method but don't see how I can get to it yet. Any ideas??

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jay

How do I find the version info? By right clicking on the 'file | properties' or by opening it in a pdf reader and then do 'file | properties?

Shay/Hal,

Thanks for your responses.

I came up with the line below which worked OK.

dir Y:\*.pdf|select name, @{n="Version";e= {(gc $_ |select-string "%PDF-*").tostring().substring(5,3)}}|ft -auto

What errors did you get? Should end up with something like this...

Name                     Version
----                     -------
14-010-01.pdf            1.3   
14-010-02.pdf            1.3   
28-060-03.pdf            1.3   
28-057-05.pdf            1.3  

Not sure why you had to use fullname an I didn't...

There's probably a more efficient way to do it but this got the customers request taken care of.

If I have to do this again I'll probably try to tweak performance.

Are your PDF files large. Since we're using get-content to extract the %PDF part of the file for version I think it makes since that if the files are large it wll take a while. I went through 1806 files in about 15-20 minutes but the files were averaging probably 500K.

I found that if you add the '-totalCount 1' to get-content (instead of reading the entire file) then the command perform much faster. Can you conform that it works on your PDF files:

dir Y:\*.pdf | select name, @{n="Version";e= {( cat $_.fullname -totalCount 1 | select-string "%PDF-*").line.substring(1)}} | ft -auto