pdfdetach(1)                         General Commands Manual                         pdfdetach(1)



NAME
       pdfdetach - Portable Document Format (PDF) document embedded file extractor (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  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  secu‐
              rity 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
       pdfimages(1),   pdffonts(1),   pdfinfo(1),   pdftocairo(1),   pdftohtml(1),   pdftoppm(1),
       pdftops(1), pdftotext(1)



                                          15 August 2011                             pdfdetach(1)