pdfdetach - Portable Document Format (PDF) document embedded file
extractor (version 3.03)
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.
- -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.