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Extract Images from PDF

MareddyMahesh — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:53:02 GMT

Hi,

Is there any VBO available to extract images from PDF files.

Thanks,

Maheshwar

Re: Extract Images from PDF

harish.mogulluri — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:22:19 GMT

Hi Maheshwar,

you can check "Connector for Blue Prism - Adobe PDF Services - API - 2.0.0" asset from digital exchange.

https://digitalexchange.blueprism.com/dx/entry/3439/solution/blue-prism---adobe-pdf-services---export

Re: Extract Images from PDF

MareddyMahesh — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 07:42:10 GMT

Hi Harish,

Thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately, the connector requires the creation of a paid account in Adobe PDF Services, which isn't suitable for my current needs.

I'm searching for a simpler utility similar to those available in Power Automate and Ui Path.

My Business case is to extract images in a Text PDF and store images in required folder.

Re: Extract Images from PDF

naveed_raza — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:51:47 GMT

You can install Poppler pdfimages.exe application and in blueprism using Environment object use start process and specify pdfimages.exe and output folder path and provide below cmd code

pdfimages -all yourfile.pdf outputpath

Re: Extract Images from PDF

naveed_raza — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:36:21 GMT

there is another way of doing this is , using python code. you have to install python software and pypdf library , save the file with .py extension and run this python file using Environment object - start process

from pypdf import PdfReader import os pdf_path = r"C:\yourpath\testPDFImage\image-doc.pdf" output_folder = r"C:\yourpath\outputimage" os.makedirs(output_folder, exist_ok=True) reader = PdfReader(pdf_path) img_count = 1 for page_num, page in enumerate(reader.pages): if "/XObject" in page["/Resources"]: xObject = page["/Resources"]["/XObject"].get_object() for obj in xObject: if xObject[obj]["/Subtype"] == "/Image": data = xObject[obj].get_data() file_name = f"image_{page_num+1}_{img_count}.png" with open(os.path.join(output_folder, file_name), "wb") as f: f.write(data) img_count += 1