Adding and Extracting PDF File Attachments

Introduction

Attachments are powerful and valuable tools that serve a variety of purposes. They act as useful resources mainly for professional agreements, complex procedures, technical papers, and presentations.

The process of adding references to external documents in a PDF file can be tedious. It may confuse readers, especially when these references increase in number or when new versions of the referenced documents are released.

In today’s digital era and with the ascent of the PDF file format, PDF attachments are more common than ever. Follow the steps below if you want to go with the flow and are looking for a quick, tailored solution to easily attach files in a PDF document.

Advantages of PDF attachments

When we enclose attachments in a PDF document, it comes with many advantages. Here are a few to consider:

1. It makes the subject document more dynamic.

2. It allows ubiquitous access to the attached media considered relevant to the content.

3. It streamlines information sharing, improves productivity, and fosters digital collaboration.

4. It facilitates information consolidation by featuring comprehensive and centralized documents. These documents constitute the lifeblood of modern business.

Scope

This lesson exemplifies the necessary steps to attach external files to a PDF document and extract embedded files while using lightweight, command-line-based utilities developed in the Python programming ...