# Oneboxing of PDFs and other attachments

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-of-pdfs-and-other-attachments/55972
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [18 בינואר,‏ 2017,‏ 4:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-of-pdfs-and-other-attachments/55972 "2017-01-18T16:20:13Z")
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### Author: ![schungx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/schungx/32/70989_2.png) [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [18 באוקטובר,‏ 2017,‏ 5:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-of-pdfs-and-other-attachments/55972/24 "2017-10-18T05:44:39Z")

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Does the OneBox-ing of PDF documents only work for external files? Not for local uploaded files?

I have PDF files uploaded in topic posts, and they are not showing up as OneBox.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/6/7649937c4d7d01209fcb64fe35eb3123dcf846fb.png)

I also support getting the metadata if the document is local. That should avoid the need to download it from the external source, so there is no excuse not to process it. 😁

How about something like [`Docsplit`](http://documentcloud.github.io/docsplit/) that works on many different file formats?

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