pdfdetach(1) General Commands Manual pdfdetach(1)
NAME
pdfdetach - Portable Document Format (PDF) document embedded file ex-
tractor (version 3.03)
SYNOPSIS
pdfdetach [options] [PDF-file]
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 com-
mands. 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 associ-
ated 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.)
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.
AUTHOR
The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph &
Cog, LLC.
SEE ALSO
pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1),
pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1) pdfseparate(1), pdfsig(1), pdfu-
nite(1)
15 August 2011 pdfdetach(1)
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