I have some PDF's all with two attached files with static names. I would like to use iTextSharp to extract these files to a temp directory so that I can work with them further. I tried following the tutorial here but I ran into problems when the iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfReader
didn't have a getCatalog()
method as shown in the bottom example.
Any advice on how I can extract the attachments? Let's just say for ease that the PDF document is at "C:\test.pdf" and the two attachments are stored as "attach1.xml" and "attach2.xml".
I found this solution. I don't know if it's the best way, but, it work!!
protected void btnTransfer_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(FileUpload1.FileContent);
List<FileContent> lstAtt = GetAttachments(reader);
reader.Close();
}
private class FileContent
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public byte[] Content { get; set; }
}
private List<FileContent> GetAttachments(PdfReader reader)
{
#region Variables
PdfDictionary catalog = null;
PdfDictionary documentNames = null;
PdfDictionary embeddedFiles = null;
PdfDictionary fileArray = null;
PdfDictionary file = null;
PRStream stream = null;
FileContent fContent = null;
List<FileContent> lstAtt = null;
#endregion
// Obtengo el conjunto de Diccionarios del PDF.
catalog = reader.Catalog;
// Variable que contiene la lista de archivos adjuntos.
lstAtt = new List<FileContent>();
// Obtengo documento
documentNames = (PdfDictionary)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(catalog.Get(PdfName.NAMES));
if (documentNames != null)
{
// Obtengo diccionario de objetos embebidos
embeddedFiles = (PdfDictionary)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(documentNames.Get(PdfName.EMBEDDEDFILES));
if (embeddedFiles != null)
{
// Obtengo lista de documentos del Diccionario de objetos embebidos
PdfArray filespecs = embeddedFiles.GetAsArray(PdfName.NAMES);
// Cada archivo posee 2 posiciones en el array
for (int i = 0; i < filespecs.Size; i++)
{
// Como posee 2 posiciones por archivo, hago "i++"
i++;
fileArray = filespecs.GetAsDict(i);
// Obtengo diccionario del adjunto
file = fileArray.GetAsDict(PdfName.EF);
foreach (PdfName key in file.Keys)
{
stream = (PRStream)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(file.GetAsIndirectObject(key));
fContent = new FileContent();
// Nombre del Archivo.
fContent.Name = fileArray.GetAsString(key).ToString();
// Array de bytes del Contenido del Archivo.
fContent.Content = PdfReader.GetStreamBytes(stream);
lstAtt.Add(fContent);
}
}
}
}
// Y al fin, devuelvo una lista de adjuntos del PDF - podrían haberlo echo un poco mas facil :@
return lstAtt;
}
I ended up finding a way to do this - although not exactly programmatically. I included a binary called "pdftk.exe" which is PDF ToolKit, which has command-line options to extract the attachments.
To clarify, I added pdftk.exe, then called it via Process.Start("./pdftk", "contains_attachments.pdf unpack_files output \"C:\\output_directory\"")
. Note that pdftk will not output to a folder with a trailing backslash. You can find pdftk here: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
After adding the .exe file to the project, you need to set its properties to "Copy always" or "Copy if newer".