Currently, they are not opened as pdf, but I. Some scanners mail the scanned pdf file as an application/octet-stream with pdf extension. Take image attachments and use them to populate image fields Acrobat methods for attachments The acrobat document object has a property: dataObjects that returns an array of all the attachments in the current document. Take any attachments a user has added to the PDF and include it in a form submission or in a web service request.

If you can do so, it opens up a couple of interesting possibilities. The end goal is to copy a PDF attachments into XML data. So I’ve tried again and had a little more success this time. But then I saw a customer scenario that called for this capability, and then one of my regular commenters (Bruce) brought up the topic as well. I wasn’t happy with the outcome at that time, and I was going to leave it. Some time ago I experimented with PDF attachments - trying to add them to my XML data. This blog entry has been re-published with updated information.

Convert octet stream to pdf