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DocumentAttachment Class

Summary

Properties of an attachment in a LEADDocument.

Syntax
C#
C++/CLI
Python
[SerializableAttribute()] 
[DataContractAttribute()] 
public class DocumentAttachment 
public: 
   [SerializableAttribute,  
   DataContractAttribute] 
   ref class DocumentAttachment 
class DocumentAttachment: 
Remarks

The Document library supports reading embedded attachments from documents such as PDF, as well as external attachments that are added manually.

For more information, refer to Document Attachments.

Example

This example will extract the attachments embedded in a PDF file.

C#
Java
using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.Document.Writer; 
 
using Leadtools.Document; 
using Leadtools.Caching; 
using Leadtools.Annotations.Engine; 
using Leadtools.Ocr; 
using Leadtools.Barcode; 
using Leadtools.Document.Converter; 
 
public void AttachmentsExample() 
{ 
   // The PDF document can be one of the following: 
   // 1. Normal PDF without attachments. Has one or more pages and no attachments. 
   // 2. Normal PDF with attachments. Has one or more pages and one or more attachments. 
   // 3. PDF Portfolio. Has a placeholder page and one or more attachments. 
 
   // The value of LoadDocumentOptions.LoadAttachmentsMode affects loading the documents as follows: 
 
   // 1. Normal PDF without attachments: Will not be affected. 
   // 2. Normal PDF with attachments: Number of pages is not affected. 
   //    Number of attachments is: 
   //       LoadAttachmentsMode = None then 0 
   //       LoadAttachmentsMode = AsAttachments then number of attachments found in the document. 
   // 3. PDF Portfolio: Number of pages is: 
   //       LoadAttachmentsMode = None then 1 (the placeholder page) 
   //       LoadAttachmentsMode = AsAttachments then 0 (the document has no pages). 
   //    Number of attachments is: 
   //       LoadAttachmentsMode = None then 0 
   //       LoadAttachmentsMode = AsAttachments then number of attachments found in the document. 
 
   // First, load the document without attachments 
   string pdfFile = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "Leadtools.pdf"); 
   string outputDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir); 
 
   Console.WriteLine($"Loading with DocumentLoadAttachmentsMode.None"); 
   var loadDocumentOptions = new LoadDocumentOptions(); 
   loadDocumentOptions.LoadAttachmentsMode = DocumentLoadAttachmentsMode.None; 
   using (LEADDocument document = DocumentFactory.LoadFromFile(pdfFile, loadDocumentOptions)) 
   { 
      Console.WriteLine(document.GetDocumentFileName()); 
      Console.WriteLine($"Document has {document.Pages.Count} pages"); 
 
      // Find out if the document is portfolio 
      bool isPortfolio = 
         document.Metadata.ContainsKey(LEADDocument.MetadataKey_IsPortfolio) && 
         bool.Parse(document.Metadata[LEADDocument.MetadataKey_IsPortfolio]); 
      Console.WriteLine($"IsPortfolio:{isPortfolio}"); 
 
      // Check that everything is as expected 
 
      // We should have 0 attachments since we did not instruct the toolkit to load these 
      Debug.Assert(document.Attachments.Count == 0); 
 
      // We should have one or more pages regardless of whether the document is PDF portfolio 
      Debug.Assert(document.Pages.Count > 0); 
   } 
 
   // Next, load the document with attachments 
   Console.WriteLine($"Loading with DocumentLoadAttachmentsMode.AsAttachments"); 
   loadDocumentOptions.LoadAttachmentsMode = DocumentLoadAttachmentsMode.AsAttachments; 
   using (LEADDocument document = DocumentFactory.LoadFromFile(pdfFile, loadDocumentOptions)) 
   { 
      document.AutoDeleteAttachmentsFromCache = true; 
             
      Console.WriteLine($"Document has {document.Pages.Count} pages"); 
 
      // Find out if the document is portfolio 
      bool isPortfolio = 
         document.Metadata.ContainsKey(LEADDocument.MetadataKey_IsPortfolio) && 
         bool.Parse(document.Metadata[LEADDocument.MetadataKey_IsPortfolio]); 
      Console.WriteLine($"IsPortfolio:{isPortfolio}"); 
 
      // Check that everything is as expected 
 
      // We may have 0 or more attachments depending on the file 
      Console.WriteLine($"Document has {document.Attachments.Count} attachments"); 
 
      // We should have one or more pages unless this is PDF portfolio, then it will have 0 pages 
      if (isPortfolio) 
      { 
         Debug.Assert(document.Pages.Count == 0); 
      } 
 
      // Extract all the attachments into the output directory 
      foreach (DocumentAttachment attachment in document.Attachments) 
      { 
         // Show info on this attachment 
         Console.WriteLine($"Attachment number {attachment.AttachmentNumber} file name is '{attachment.FileName}', " + 
            $"length is {attachment.FileLength} bytes, and ID is {attachment.DocumentId}, Is Embedded: {attachment.IsEmbedded}"); 
         // Get the attachment file name 
         // This value may not be unique, so combine it with the attachment number 
         string attachmentFileName = $"{attachment.AttachmentNumber}-{attachment.FileName}"; 
         attachmentFileName = Path.Combine(outputDirectory, attachmentFileName); 
 
         // Get the attachment as a stream, we do not want to save it to the cache so pass null for that 
         // DocumentAttachments reference 
         using (Stream attachmentStream = document.Attachments.CreateAttachmentStream(attachment.AttachmentNumber, null)) 
         { 
            if (attachmentStream != null) 
            { 
               // Save it to the output file 
               using (var stream = File.Create(attachmentFileName)) 
               { 
                  document.SaveAttachmentToCache(null); 
                  attachmentStream.CopyTo(stream); 
               } 
            } 
         } 
 
         var saveOptions = new SaveAttachmentToCacheOptions(); 
         saveOptions.AttachmentNumber = 0; 
         saveOptions.UpdateAttachmentDocumentId = true; 
         saveOptions.UploadDocumentOptions = new UploadDocumentOptions(); 
         document.SaveAttachmentToCache(saveOptions); 
 
         // Or load this attachment as a LEADDocument, this might fail if the attachment is not of a valid image 
         // or document format 
         try 
         { 
            Console.WriteLine("Loading as LEADDocument"); 
            var loadAttachmentOptions = new LoadAttachmentOptions(); 
            loadAttachmentOptions.AttachmentNumber = attachment.AttachmentNumber; 
            loadAttachmentOptions.UpdateAttachmentDocumentId = true; 
            using (LEADDocument attachmentDocument = document.LoadDocumentAttachment(loadAttachmentOptions)) 
            { 
               Console.WriteLine($"Success, attachment document mime type is {attachmentDocument.MimeType} and has {attachmentDocument.Pages.Count} pages"); 
            } 
         } 
         catch (Exception ex) 
         { 
            Console.WriteLine($"Error {ex.Message}"); 
         } 
      } 
   } 
} 
 
static class LEAD_VARS 
{ 
   public const string ImagesDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS23\Resources\Images"; 
} 
 
import java.io.File; 
import java.io.FileOutputStream; 
import java.io.IOException; 
import java.net.MalformedURLException; 
import java.net.URI; 
import java.net.URISyntaxException; 
import java.net.URL; 
import java.nio.file.Files; 
import java.nio.file.Paths; 
import java.util.ArrayList; 
import java.util.Calendar; 
import java.util.List; 
import java.util.concurrent.Callable; 
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService; 
import java.util.concurrent.Executors; 
import java.util.concurrent.Future; 
import java.util.regex.Pattern; 
 
import org.junit.*; 
import org.junit.runner.JUnitCore; 
import org.junit.runner.Result; 
import org.junit.runner.notification.Failure; 
import static org.junit.Assert.*; 
 
import leadtools.*; 
import leadtools.annotations.engine.*; 
import leadtools.barcode.*; 
import leadtools.caching.*; 
import leadtools.codecs.*; 
import leadtools.document.*; 
import leadtools.document.DocumentMimeTypes.UserGetDocumentStatusHandler; 
import leadtools.document.converter.*; 
import leadtools.document.writer.*; 
import leadtools.ocr.*; 
 
 
public void attachmentsExample() throws IOException { 
 
   final String LEAD_VARS_IMAGES_DIR = "C:\\LEADTOOLS23\\Resources\\Images"; 
   // The PDF document can be one of the following: 
   // 1. Normal PDF without attachments. Has one or more pages and no attachments. 
   // 2. Normal PDF with attachments. Has one or more pages and one or more 
   // attachments. 
   // 3. PDF Portfolio. Has a placeholder page and one or more attachments. 
 
   // The value of LoadDocumentOptions.LoadAttachmentsMode affects loading the 
   // documents as follows: 
 
   // 1. Normal PDF without attachments: Will not be affected. 
   // 2. Normal PDF with attachments: Number of pages is not affected. 
   // Number of attachments is: 
   // LoadAttachmentsMode = None then 0 
   // LoadAttachmentsMode = AsAttachments then number of attachments found in the 
   // document. 
   // 3. PDF Portfolio: Number of pages is: 
   // LoadAttachmentsMode = None then 1 (the placeholder page) 
   // LoadAttachmentsMode = AsAttachments then 0 (the document has no pages). 
   // Number of attachments is: 
   // LoadAttachmentsMode = None then 0 
   // LoadAttachmentsMode = AsAttachments then number of attachments found in the 
   // document. 
 
   // First, load the document without attachments 
   String pdfFile = combine(LEAD_VARS_IMAGES_DIR, "Leadtools.pdf"); 
   String outputDirectory = LEAD_VARS_IMAGES_DIR; 
 
   System.out.println("Loading with DocumentLoadAttachmentsMode.None"); 
   LoadDocumentOptions loadDocumentOptions = new LoadDocumentOptions(); 
   loadDocumentOptions.setLoadAttachmentsMode(DocumentLoadAttachmentsMode.NONE); 
   LEADDocument document = DocumentFactory.loadFromFile(pdfFile, loadDocumentOptions); 
 
   System.out.println(document.getDocumentFileName()); 
   System.out.println("Document has " + document.getPages().size() + " pages"); 
 
   // Find out if the document is portfolio 
   boolean isPortfolio = document.getMetadata().containsKey(LEADDocument.METADATA_KEY_ISPORTFOLIO) && 
         Boolean.getBoolean(document.getMetadata().get(LEADDocument.METADATA_KEY_ISPORTFOLIO)); 
   System.out.println("IsPortfolio:" + isPortfolio); 
 
   // Check that everything is as expected 
 
   // We should have 0 attachments since we did not instruct the toolkit to load 
   // these 
   assertTrue(document.getAttachments().size() == 0); 
 
   // We should have one or more pages regardless of whether the document is PDF 
   // portfolio 
   assertTrue(document.getPages().size() > 0); 
 
   // Next, load the document with attachments 
   System.out.println("Loading with DocumentLoadAttachmentsMode.AsAttachments"); 
   loadDocumentOptions.setLoadAttachmentsMode(DocumentLoadAttachmentsMode.AS_ATTACHMENTS); 
   document = DocumentFactory.loadFromFile(pdfFile, loadDocumentOptions); 
 
   document.setAutoDeleteAttachmentsFromCache(true); 
 
   System.out.println("Document has " + document.getPages().size() + " pages"); 
 
   // Find out if the document is portfolio 
   isPortfolio = document.getMetadata().containsKey(LEADDocument.METADATA_KEY_ISPORTFOLIO) && 
         Boolean.getBoolean(document.getMetadata().get(LEADDocument.METADATA_KEY_ISPORTFOLIO)); 
   System.out.println("IsPortfolio:" + isPortfolio); 
 
   // Check that everything is as expected 
 
   // We may have 0 or more attachments depending on the file 
   System.out.println("Document has " + document.getAttachments().size() + " attachments"); 
 
   // We should have one or more pages unless this is PDF portfolio, then it will 
   // have 0 pages 
   if (isPortfolio) { 
      assertTrue(document.getPages().size() == 0); 
   } 
 
   // Extract all the attachments into the output directory 
   for (DocumentAttachment attachment : document.getAttachments()) { 
      // Show info on this attachment 
      System.out.println("Attachment number " + attachment.getAttachmentNumber() + " file name is '" 
            + attachment.getFileName() + "', " + 
            "length is " + attachment.getFileLength() + " bytes, and ID is " + attachment.getDocumentId() 
            + ", Is Embedded: " + attachment.isEmbedded()); 
      // Get the attachment file name 
      // This value may not be unique, so combine it with the attachment number 
      String attachmentFileName = attachment.getAttachmentNumber() + "-" + attachment.getFileName(); 
      attachmentFileName = combine(outputDirectory, attachmentFileName); 
 
      // Get the attachment as a stream, we do not want to save it to the cache so 
      // pass null for that 
      // DocumentAttachments reference 
      ILeadStream attachmentStream = document.getAttachments() 
            .createAttachmentStream(attachment.getAttachmentNumber(), null); 
      if (attachmentStream != null) { 
         document.saveAttachmentToCache(null); 
         // Save it to the output file 
         FileOutputStream fileStream = new FileOutputStream(attachmentFileName); 
         //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// fileStream.write(attachmentStream.toInputStream().readAllBytes()); 
         fileStream.close(); 
      } 
      attachmentStream.dispose(); 
 
      SaveAttachmentToCacheOptions saveOptions = new SaveAttachmentToCacheOptions(); 
      saveOptions.setAttachmentNumber(0); 
      saveOptions.setUpdateAttachmentDocumentId(true); 
      saveOptions.setUploadDocumentOptions(new UploadDocumentOptions()); 
      document.saveAttachmentToCache(saveOptions); 
 
      // Or load this attachment as a LEADDocument, this might fail if the attachment 
      // is not of a valid image 
      // or document format 
      try { 
         System.out.println("Loading as LEADDocument"); 
         LoadAttachmentOptions loadAttachmentOptions = new LoadAttachmentOptions(); 
         loadAttachmentOptions.setAttachmentNumber(attachment.getAttachmentNumber()); 
         loadAttachmentOptions.setUpdateAttachmentDocumentId(true); 
         LEADDocument attachmentDocument = document.loadDocumentAttachment(loadAttachmentOptions); 
 
         System.out.println("Success, attachment document mime type is " + attachmentDocument.getMimeType() 
               + " and has " + attachmentDocument.getPages().size() + " pages"); 
      } catch (Exception ex) { 
         System.out.println("Error " + ex.getMessage()); 
      } 
 
   } 
} 
Requirements

Target Platforms

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