diff --git a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/embeddedfileextractor/PDFAttachmentExtractor.java b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/embeddedfileextractor/PDFAttachmentExtractor.java
index a36b5c365d..15b1f1beb7 100755
--- a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/embeddedfileextractor/PDFAttachmentExtractor.java
+++ b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/embeddedfileextractor/PDFAttachmentExtractor.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
 import org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser;
 import org.apache.tika.parser.ParseContext;
 import org.apache.tika.parser.Parser;
+import org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParserConfig;
 import org.apache.tika.sax.BodyContentHandler;
 import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
@@ -79,6 +80,12 @@ final class PDFAttachmentExtractor {
         ParseContext parseContext = new ParseContext();
         parseContext.set(Parser.class, parser);
 
+        PDFParserConfig pdfConfig = new PDFParserConfig();
+        pdfConfig.setExtractInlineImages(true);
+        pdfConfig.setExtractUniqueInlineImagesOnly(true);
+
+        parseContext.set(PDFParserConfig.class, pdfConfig);
+        
         //Keep track of the attachment files as they are being extracted and written to disk.
         NewResourceWatcher watcher = new NewResourceWatcher();
         parseContext.set(EmbeddedDocumentExtractor.class, new EmbeddedAttachmentHandler(outputDir, parentID, watcher));