pdfdetach(1) General Commands Manual pdfdetach(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

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

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**pdfdetach** \[options] \[*PDF-file*]

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

**Pdfdetach** lists or extracts embedded files (attachments) from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

# [OPTIONS](#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)

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)

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**](#savefile)

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**](#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**](#o)

Set the file name used when saving an embedded file with the "-save" switch, or the directory used by "-saveall".

[**-enc encoding-name**](#enc)

Sets the encoding to use for text output (embedded file names). This defaults to "UTF-8".

[**-opw password**](#opw)

Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will bypass all security restrictions.

[**-upw password**](#upw)

Specify the user password for the PDF file.

[**-v**](#v)

Print copyright and version information.

[**-h**](#h)

Print usage information. (**-help** and **--help** are equivalent.)

# [EXIT CODES](#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](#AUTHOR)

The pdfinfo software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**pdffonts**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdffonts.1), [**pdfimages**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfimages.1), [**pdfinfo**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfinfo.1), [**pdftocairo**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftocairo.1), [**pdftohtml**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftohtml.1), [**pdftoppm**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftoppm.1), [**pdftops**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftops.1), [**pdftotext**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdftotext.1) [**pdfseparate**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfseparate.1), [**pdfsig**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfsig.1), [**pdfunite**(1)](/man/os/poppler/pdfunite.1)

15 August 2011

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Document: pdfdetach(1) from poppler 26.10.0-r0 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler.git