#  `dump_data_utf8`

Metadata, page and bookmark info (in UTF-8)
## Usage
> pdftl `<input>` `dump_data_utf8` `[json]` `[output` `<output>]`

## Details
Extracts document-level metadata and structural information
from the input PDF, identical to the `dump_data` operation,
except all string values in the output are written as raw
UTF-8. No XML-style escaping is applied.

This format is designed to be read by the `update_info_utf8`
operation. Use this if you need to inspect or process the
data with tools that do not understand XML escaping.

For a complete description of the output format and all
possible fields, see the help for `dump_data`.
## Examples

> Save raw metadata for in.pdf to data.txt
```
pdftl in.pdf dump_data_utf8 output data.txt
```


**Tags**: info, metadata

*Source: pdftl.operations.dump_data*

*Read online: [https://pdftl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operations/dump_data_utf8.html](https://pdftl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operations/dump_data_utf8.html)*

*Type: Operation*