Extracting metadata from PDF's

I have a client that has hundreds of store signs as PDF's. We need to verify what the actual printed size of each sign will be when it's printed out. We have noticed that hovering our cursor over the lower left hand corner of the PDF's reveals it's size - which is great, but we don't want to have to go through the process of opening up each PDF (there are hundreds) and going through that process. Is there a way to export the file name and it's size into excel so we can quickly audit the pieces?
And perhaps this is a bridge question, but when we view the files in Bridge, we also see the Metadata, which shows the dimensions of the piece, but those dimensions seem to change depending on the PPI. How does Acrobat come up with it's dimensions if they are different than the metadata we see in Bridge?

Hi Alan,
Typing the following two lines in the Script Editor should list the metadata attributes for the choosen file:
set F to choose file with prompt "Choose a PDF file:" of type "PDF "
do shell script "mdls" & space & quoted form of POSIX path of F
For more information on "mdls", open the Terminal window and just type “man mdls” (and return).
Maybe you might also use the following AppleScript statement in case there were some keywords in the Spotlight comments field of the file:
tell application "Finder" to return comment of F
Message was edited by: Pierre L.

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