Stop throwing away the files a document carries

attach.go

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+// Copyright (c) 2026, the go-pdfkit/ops authors
+// All rights reserved.
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+package ops
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"sort"
+
+	"github.com/go-pdfkit/reader"
+)
+
+// An Attachment is a file travelling inside the document.
+type Attachment struct {
+	// Name is what the document calls it.
+	Name string
+	// Description is what it says the file is, when it says anything.
+	Description string
+	// Data is the file.
+	Data []byte
+}
+
+// Attachments are the files the document carries, in the order it names them.
+//
+// A PDF can hold whole files inside it — the spreadsheet a report was drawn
+// from, the XML a form was filled from, the source of a figure. They are not
+// drawn and nothing on the page says they are there, which is why a tool that
+// rewrites a document can drop them without anyone noticing until the file is
+// wanted.
+func (d *Doc) Attachments() []Attachment {
+	out := append([]Attachment(nil), d.attached...)
+	// Every document the pages came from, not just the one. A merged document
+	// has several sources and each may carry files; unlike a form or a
+	// catalogue, two sets of files cannot conflict, because a file belongs to
+	// no page.
+	seen := map[*reader.Document]bool{}
+	for _, p := range d.pages {
+		if p.src == nil || seen[p.src] {
+			continue
+		}
+		seen[p.src] = true
+		out = append(out, readAttachments(p.src)...)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// Attach puts a file inside the document, under a name.
+//
+// The name is what a reader shows and what another tool looks it up by. Two
+// files under one name is a document that has lost one of them, so a name
+// already used is refused rather than quietly replacing what is there.
+func (d *Doc) Attach(name string, data []byte, description string) error {
+	if name == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("ops: a file inside a document needs a name")
+	}
+	for _, a := range d.Attachments() {
+		if a.Name == name {
+			return fmt.Errorf("ops: this document already carries a file called %q", name)
+		}
+	}
+	d.attached = append(d.attached, Attachment{Name: name, Description: description, Data: data})
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Detach removes the file of that name, and says whether there was one.
+func (d *Doc) Detach(name string) bool {
+	for i, a := range d.attached {
+		if a.Name == name {
+			d.attached = append(d.attached[:i], d.attached[i+1:]...)
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	// A file that came in with the document is dropped by being left out of
+	// what is written, which is what dropped is set for.
+	for _, a := range d.Attachments() {
+		if a.Name == name {
+			d.dropped = append(d.dropped, name)
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// readAttachments walks the /EmbeddedFiles name tree of a source document.
+func readAttachments(src *reader.Document) []Attachment {
+	// A document that opened has a catalogue; one that somehow has none simply
+	// has nothing in it to look under, which the next line asks anyway.
+	cat, _ := src.Catalog()
+	names, ok := src.GetDict(cat, "Names")
+	if !ok {
+		return nil
+	}
+	tree, ok := src.GetDict(names, "EmbeddedFiles")
+	if !ok {
+		return nil
+	}
+	var out []Attachment
+	walkNameTree(src, tree, 0, func(name string, value reader.Object) {
+		spec, ok := reader.ToDict(resolve(src, value))
+		if !ok {
+			return
+		}
+		a := Attachment{Name: name}
+		if s, ok := reader.ToString(resolve(src, spec.Get("Desc"))); ok {
+			a.Description = string(s)
+		}
+		ef, ok := reader.ToDict(resolve(src, spec.Get("EF")))
+		if !ok {
+			return
+		}
+		// /F is the usual place; /UF is its Unicode twin and holds the same
+		// stream when both are there.
+		read := false
+		for _, key := range []reader.Name{"F", "UF"} {
+			st, ok := reader.ToStream(resolve(src, ef.Get(key)))
+			if !ok {
+				continue
+			}
+			data, filter, err := reader.DecodeStream(st, src.Get)
+			if err != nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			// A chain that stopped at a filter nothing here reads hands back
+			// the bytes as they were STORED, and names what they are still in.
+			// Handing those over as the file gives somebody a spreadsheet that
+			// is not one, which is worse than saying there is no file.
+			if filter != "" {
+				continue
+			}
+			a.Data, read = data, true
+			break
+		}
+		// A specification pointing at nothing that can be read is not a file.
+		// Handing it over with no bytes says the document carries something it
+		// does not, and whoever asked would save an empty file believing it.
+		if !read {
+			return
+		}
+		out = append(out, a)
+	})
+	sort.Slice(out, func(i, j int) bool { return out[i].Name < out[j].Name })
+	return out
+}
+
+// walkNameTree visits the entries of a PDF name tree, which is a sorted map
+// spread over a tree of nodes so that a reader can find a name without reading
+// all of them.
+func walkNameTree(src *reader.Document, node reader.Dict, depth int, visit func(string, reader.Object)) {
+	if depth > 16 {
+		// A tree that holds itself is a tree with no leaves, and following it
+		// is a way of never coming back.
+		return
+	}
+	if arr, ok := reader.ToArray(resolve(src, node.Get("Names"))); ok {
+		for i := 0; i+1 < len(arr); i += 2 {
+			key, ok := reader.ToString(resolve(src, arr[i]))
+			if !ok {
+				continue
+			}
+			visit(string(key), arr[i+1])
+		}
+	}
+	if kids, ok := reader.ToArray(resolve(src, node.Get("Kids"))); ok {
+		for _, k := range kids {
+			if kd, ok := reader.ToDict(resolve(src, k)); ok {
+				walkNameTree(src, kd, depth+1, visit)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// writeAttachments builds the /Names /EmbeddedFiles tree the catalogue points
+// at, and returns nil when there is nothing to point at.
+//
+// The catalogue's /Names used to be dropped whole, on the ground that a name
+// tree points into the document rather than describing it. That is true of
+// /Dests, whose names point at pages this may have reordered or removed, and
+// of /JavaScript, which a sanitised file has no business keeping. It is not
+// true of /EmbeddedFiles: a file inside a document is not attached to any page,
+// so it survives every verb here — and was being thrown away by all of them.
+//
+// 45 of the 3 215 documents in the forms and scans corpora carry one, 50 files
+// between them. Nothing on the page says they are there, so nobody notices
+// until the file is wanted.
+func (d *Doc) writeAttachments(w *reader.Writer) reader.Object {
+	if d.sanitize {
+		// A sanitised file leaves behind what runs and what travels: a file
+		// inside a document is the thing this is for.
+		return nil
+	}
+	all := d.Attachments()
+	dropped := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, n := range d.dropped {
+		dropped[n] = true
+	}
+	var names reader.Array
+	for _, a := range all {
+		if dropped[a.Name] {
+			continue
+		}
+		stream := w.Add(&reader.Stream{Dict: reader.Dict{
+			"Type": reader.Name("EmbeddedFile"),
+			"Params": reader.Dict{
+				"Size": reader.Integer(len(a.Data)),
+			},
+		}, Raw: a.Data})
+		spec := reader.Dict{
+			"Type": reader.Name("Filespec"),
+			"F":    reader.String(a.Name),
+			"UF":   reader.String(a.Name),
+			"EF":   reader.Dict{"F": stream, "UF": stream},
+		}
+		if a.Description != "" {
+			spec["Desc"] = reader.String(a.Description)
+		}
+		names = append(names, reader.String(a.Name), w.Add(spec))
+	}
+	if len(names) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	// One leaf, sorted: a name tree may be a single node, and the entries have
+	// to be in order for a reader that searches it rather than reading it all.
+	return w.Add(reader.Dict{"Names": names})
+}