pdfdetach
Portable Document Format (PDF) document embedded file extractor (version 3.03)
see also :
pdfimages - pdffonts - pdfinfo - pdftocairo - pdftohtml - pdftoppm - pdftops - pdftotext
Synopsis
pdfdetach
[options] [PDF-file]
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description
Pdfdetach
lists or extracts embedded files (attachments) from a
Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
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.
-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). The
encoding-name must be defined with the
unicodeMap command (see xpdfrc(5)). This defaults to
"Latin1" (which is a built-in encoding). [config
file: textEncoding]
-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.
-cfg
config-file
Read config-file in
place of ~/.xpdfrc or the system-wide config file.
-v
Print copyright and version information.
-h
Print usage information. (-help and
--help are equivalent.)
configuration file
Pdfdetach reads a configuration file at startup. It first tries
to find the user’s private config file, ~/.xpdfrc. If that
doesn’t exist, it looks for a system-wide config file, typically
/usr/local/etc/xpdfrc (but this location can be changed when
pdfinfo is built). See the xpdfrc(5) man page for details.
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.
see also
pdfimages ,
pdffonts , pdfinfo , pdftocairo ,
pdftohtml , pdftoppm , pdftops ,
pdftotext
author
The pdfinfo
software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph
& Cog, LLC.