This quick tutorial contains information on how to extract all images from Word document in Python. It provides all the resources to configure the environment and introduces the important API constructs which are required to accomplish the task including the class names, methods, and properties. You can follow the steps and write a complete program to extract images from Word document in python like extracting images from a DOCX file and saving it as an image type PNG, JPG, etc. on the disk.

Steps to Extract Images from Word File in Python

1. Configure the environment to use Aspose.Words for Python via .NET to extract images
2. Load the source Word file with images using the Document class object
3. Get list of all the shapes from the loaded document using the get_child_nodes() method
4. Parse through all the elements in the shapes collection and detect images
5. Create unique file names for each detected image in the shapes collection
6. Save the extracted image on the disk with the unique name

These steps describe the process to extract pictures from Word document in Python by sharing the environment configuration and steps to write the program. After establishing the environment, load the Word file with images using the Document class object and get the collection of all the shapes from it. As the Shape class has methods to detect images, you can extract the images and save them on the disk with the specified name.

Code to Extract Photos from Word Document in Python

Here the code is presented that demonstrates the process to extract picture from Word in Python by loading the source file using the Document class object that has a lot of features like providing the password for protected files, setting the encoding, and attaching the warning callbacks to control the loading process. Similarly, get_child_nodes() method is used to extract shapes however, you can fetch other nodes also like headers, footers, tables, comments, footnotes, and body, etc.

This article has guided us to fetch all the photos from a Word file in Python. If you want to learn the process to insert a photo in a Word file, refer to the article on how to insert picture in Word using Python.