Analyze pdf without opening

Can someone point me to the api I should look at to try and "sniff" through a .pdf file and return say the number of form fields it has?

there is no way of doing this*
* probably not true. I find generally that if I say something like that, somebody else comes along and tells me I'm wrong, so I'm taking advantage of that to hurry your reply up. a bit like people who light a cigarette to make their bus turn up :-)

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