pdfdetach - Portable Document Format (PDF) document embedded file extractor (version 3.03)
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Description
Pdfdetach lists or extracts embedded files (attachments) from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
Exit Codes
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.
Name
pdfdetach - Portable Document Format (PDF) document embedded file extractor (version 3.03)
Options
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.
-savenumber
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.
-savefilefilename
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.
-opath
Set the file name used when saving an embedded file with the "-save" switch, or the directory used
by "-saveall".
-encencoding-name
Sets the encoding to use for text output (embedded file names). This defaults to "UTF-8".
-opwpassword
Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will bypass all security
restrictions.
-upwpassword
Specify the user password for the PDF file.
-v Print copyright and version information.
-h Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.)
See Also
pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1) pdfseparate(1), pdfsig(1), pdfunite(1) 15 August 2011 pdfdetach(1)
Synopsis
pdfdetach [options] [PDF-file]
