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PDF Attachments

View, add and remove files embedded inside a PDF.

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PDF Attachments · overview

What PDF Attachments does

PDF Attachments lists the files embedded inside a PDF and lets you add new ones or remove existing ones, with removal deleting the file’s data from the document entirely.

A PDF can carry other files tucked inside it — a spreadsheet behind an invoice, the source data behind a chart, a set of photos with a report. They travel with the document and most readers never notice them, which is convenient when you mean it and a quiet liability when you don’t: a file you attached and forgot is still in there, and still openable by anyone with the PDF.

This tool shows you exactly what is embedded, with each file’s size, and lets you add more or take them out. Removing one is a true removal — the file’s data stream is deleted from the document, not just hidden from the list — so a sensitive attachment is genuinely gone from the copy you download. Everything happens in your browser; nothing about the document or its attachments is uploaded.

Step by step

How to use PDF Attachments

  1. Upload the PDF

    Drop in your file. Any embedded files are listed with their sizes.

  2. Add or remove files

    Click “Add a file” to embed anything from your device, or “Remove” next to an attachment to take it out completely.

  3. Download the result

    Click Download PDF to save a copy with your changes. Your original file is left untouched.

Details & limits

PDF Attachments: details and limits

  • Removing an attachment deletes its underlying data stream from the document, so the bytes are actually gone from the downloaded file — not merely unlinked while still sitting inside it.

  • Attachments are embedded files, which is different from the pages you see. Adding or removing them never changes the pages, text or layout of the PDF itself.

  • Any file type can be embedded — a spreadsheet, an image, a zip, another PDF. It rides inside the document and can be opened by readers that support attachments, such as Acrobat.

  • Your original file is never modified; only the copy you download carries the additions or removals.

  • A password-protected PDF must be unlocked first. A permission-restricted one is decrypted as it is saved, like the other editing tools here.

PDF Attachments · help

PDF Attachments: frequently asked questions

Upload the PDF to see everything embedded inside it. Click “Add a file” to embed something from your device, or “Remove” next to an attachment to take it out, then Download PDF to save the change.

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