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Extract Pictures from PDF with C# REST API

This quick tutorial guides you on how to extract pictures from PDF with C# REST API. It has all the details to set the development environment, a list of steps to develop the converter and extract photos from PDF with C# REST Interface using the .NET-based Cloud SDK. You will learn to extract images from a single page or all the pages in the PDF.

Prerequisite

Steps to Extract a Picture from a PDF with C# .NET-based API

  1. Configure the PdfApi object by setting the API Key and Application SID for extracting images
  2. Upload the source PDF file with images to the Cloud storage
  3. Call the GetImages() method with the uploaded PDF file name and target page number
  4. Parse through all the images in the list and get the image ID
  5. For each image call the GetImageExtractAsJpeg() method with the name and image ID to download the image
  6. Save the image with a unique name on the disk

These steps summarize how to extract image from PDF with C# Low Code API. Create the PdfApi object, upload the source PDF file using the PdfApi, and get a list of images in the source PDF file using the GetImages() method. Iterate through the list to get the image ID and use the GetImageExtractAsJpeg() method to fetch the image and save it on the disk.

Code to Extract Figure from PDF with C# RESTful Service

This code demonstrates how to export images from PDF with C# Low Code API. It fetches images from a single page, however you may iterate through all the pages in the PDF and fetch all or selected images from that page based on the image index. You can set the unique name of the downloaded image by using the page number and image index.

This article has taught us how to extract images from a PDF file. If you want to insert an image into a PDF file, refer to the article on Insert Image into PDF with C# REST API.

 

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