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Download PDF Attachment with Python REST API

This tutorial shows how to PDF Python developers can read attachment details and download a specific attachment from a PDF file using the Aspose.PDF Cloud REST API and the official Python SDK. You’ll learn to list the attachments in a PDF document and retrieve the desired file, with a ready‑to‑run code example that demonstrates the complete workflow. For more information about the PDF format, see the PDF file info page.

Prerequisite

Steps to Open Attachment in PDF with Python REST Interface

  1. Configure the PdfApi object with your API key and App SID to enable attachment operations.
  2. Upload the source PDF file that contains attachments to Aspose Cloud storage.
  3. Call the GetDocumentAttachments() method to retrieve information about each attachment.
  4. Display the total number of attachments and basic details such as Href, Rel, Type, and Title.

These steps outline how to access Adobe PDF attachments using the Python‑based API. After uploading the PDF, the GetDocumentAttachments() call returns a list that you can iterate over, and you can subsequently download any attachment by its index.

Code to View PDF Attachments with Python REST Interface

The sample code demonstrates how to list all attachments in a PDF document and obtain their metadata. To download a particular attachment, use the GetDownloadDocumentAttachmentByIndex() method, which returns the attachment stream that you can save to disk.

For further reading on extracting text from PDFs with the same SDK, see the article Extract Text from PDF Document with Python REST API.

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