Extract images from PDF without resampling, in python?

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matt wilkie picture matt wilkie · Apr 22, 2010 · Viewed 101.3k times · Source

How might one extract all images from a pdf document, at native resolution and format? (Meaning extract tiff as tiff, jpeg as jpeg, etc. and without resampling). Layout is unimportant, I don't care were the source image is located on the page.

I'm using python 2.7 but can use 3.x if required.

Answer

kateryna picture kateryna · Dec 19, 2017

You can use the module PyMuPDF. This outputs all images as .png files, but worked out of the box and is fast.

import fitz
doc = fitz.open("file.pdf")
for i in range(len(doc)):
    for img in doc.getPageImageList(i):
        xref = img[0]
        pix = fitz.Pixmap(doc, xref)
        if pix.n < 5:       # this is GRAY or RGB
            pix.writePNG("p%s-%s.png" % (i, xref))
        else:               # CMYK: convert to RGB first
            pix1 = fitz.Pixmap(fitz.csRGB, pix)
            pix1.writePNG("p%s-%s.png" % (i, xref))
            pix1 = None
        pix = None

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