How to Read PDF Metadata Using PyMuPDF

If you’re working with a PyMuPDF's Document object called doc, you can access its metadata with:

metadata = doc.metadata

PyMuPDF is a Python library for working with PDF files.

What does doc.metadata mean?

doc.metadata contains additional information about the PDF document, rather than the PDF document’s main text.

It might contain information such as:

format
title
author
creator

1. Store the metadata

Store PDF Metadata with Python

This takes the metadata associated with doc and stores it in a variable called metadata.

2. Print the metadata

Printing Document Metadata with Python

This displays the metadata:

{'format': 'PDF 1.5', 'title': 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) ', 'author': 'PDF Python Hub', 'subject': 'An Overview of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Ethical Frameworks, and Future Outlook', 'keywords': 'Artificial Intelligence, AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI, Large Language Models, AI Ethics', 'creator': 'Google Docs', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m153 Google Docs Renderer', 'creationDate': "D:20260816101230+02'00'", 'modDate': "D:20260818145823+02'00'", 'trapped': '', 'encryption': None}

You can then access individual pieces of information:

print(metadata["author"])

print(metadata["creationDate"])