Inline images extraction

[maiiabocharova]

There are some small pictures in my PDFs and I am not able to extract them with page.getImageList() (it returns the empty list). Can you please recommend me what I can do to extract those images, maybe another library? I need those images very much)

[JorjMcKie]

If this happens, you

1. either are not looking at images, but at so-called drawings
2. or are looking at PDF "inline" images.

Drawings can be extracted via page.get_drawings() / page.get_cdrawings(). This is a list of dictionaries. Each dict represents a number of interconnected elementary draw commands: lines, curves, rectangles or quads.

Inline images are only contained in the internal page command source (the /Contents object(s)) - nowhere else. Method page.get_text("dict") (or "rawdict") contains all images on page - inline and others. Each image occurence occurs as many times as it is shown.