Extract Images

Note

In order to use the following code you need to install optional dependencies, see installation guide.

Every page of a PDF document can contain an arbitrary number of images. The names of the files may not be unique.

from pypdf import PdfReader

reader = PdfReader("example.pdf")

page = reader.pages[0]

for i, image_file_object in enumerate(page.images):
    file_name = "out-image-" + str(i) + "-" + image_file_object.name
    image_file_object.image.save(file_name)

Other images

Some other objects can contain images, such as stamp annotations.

You can extract the image from the annotation with the following code:

from pypdf import PdfReader

reader = PdfReader("example.pdf")
im = (
    reader.pages[0]["/Annots"][4]["/Parent"]
    .get_object()["/AP"]["/N"]["/Resources"]["/XObject"]["/Im4"]
    .decode_as_image()
)

im.save("out-annotation-image.png")