pdfdetach - Man Page

• List all attachments in a file with a specific text encoding: pdfdetach list -enc UTF-8 path/to/input.pdf
• Save specific embedded file by specifying its number: pdfdetach -save number path/to/input.pdf
• Save specific embedded file by specifying its name: pdfdetach -savefile name path/to/input.pdf
• Save the embedded file with a custom output filename: pdfdetach -save number -o path/to/output path/to/input.pdf
• Save the attachment from a file secured by owner/user password: pdfdetach -save number -opw|-upw password path/to/input.pdf

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pdfdetach [options] [PDF-file]

Pdfdetach lists or extracts embedded files (attachments) from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

Some of the following options can be set with configuration file commands.  These are listed in square brackets with the description of the corresponding command line option.

-list

List all of the embedded files in the PDF file.  File names are converted to the text encoding specified by the "-enc" switch.

-save number

Save the specified embedded file.  By default, this uses the file name associated with the embedded file (as printed by the "-list" switch); the file name can be changed with the "-o" switch.

-savefile filename

Save the specified embedded file.  By default, this uses the file name associated with the embedded file (as printed by the "-list" switch); the file name can be changed with the "-o" switch.

-saveall

Save all of the embedded files.  This uses the file names associated with the embedded files (as printed by the "-list" switch).  By default, the files are saved in the current directory; this can be changed with the "-o" switch.

-o path

Set the file name used when saving an embedded file with the "-save" switch, or the directory used by "-saveall".

-enc encoding-name

Sets the encoding to use for text output (embedded file names). This defaults to "UTF-8".

-opw password

Specify the owner password for the PDF file.  Providing this will bypass all security restrictions.

-upw password

Specify the user password for the PDF file.

-v

Print copyright and version information.

-h

Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.)

The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:

0

No error.

1

Error opening a PDF file.

2

Error opening an output file.

3

Error related to PDF permissions.

99

Other error.

The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC.

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