c# - Extract Image from a particular page in PDF

Question

I want to extract an Image from a PDF file. I tried with the following code and it extracted a jpeg Image perfectly from the PDF. The problem is how to extract image from a particular page e.g. Page 1 or from some other page. I don't want to read the whole PDF to search for the Image.

Any suggestions?

Code to extract Image:

private void List<System.Drawing.Image> ExtractImages(String PDFSourcePath)
        {
            List<System.Drawing.Image> ImgList = new List<System.Drawing.Image>();

            iTextSharp.text.pdf.RandomAccessFileOrArray RAFObj = null;
            iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfReader PDFReaderObj = null;
            iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfObject PDFObj = null;
            iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfStream PDFStremObj = null;

            try
            {
                RAFObj = new iTextSharp.text.pdf.RandomAccessFileOrArray(PDFSourcePath);
                PDFReaderObj = new iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfReader(RAFObj, null);

                for (int i = 0; i <= PDFReaderObj.XrefSize - 1; i++)
                {
                    PDFObj = PDFReaderObj.GetPdfObject(i);

                    if ((PDFObj != null) && PDFObj.IsStream())
                    {
                        PDFStremObj = (iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfStream)PDFObj;
                        iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfObject subtype = PDFStremObj.Get(iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfName.SUBTYPE);

                        if ((subtype != null) && subtype.ToString() == iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfName.IMAGE.ToString())
                        {
                            byte[] bytes = iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfReader.GetStreamBytesRaw((iTextSharp.text.pdf.PRStream)PDFStremObj);

                            if ((bytes != null))
                            {
                                try
                                {
                                    System.IO.MemoryStream MS = new System.IO.MemoryStream(bytes);

                                    MS.Position = 0;
                                    System.Drawing.Image ImgPDF = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(MS);
                                    pictureBox1.Image = ImgPDF;
                                    MS.Close();
                                    MS.Flush();

                                }
                                catch (Exception)
                                {

                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                PDFReaderObj.Close();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                throw new Exception(ex.Message);
            }                
        }

Answer 1

I don't have iTextSharp 4.0 available currently so this code targets 5.2 but it should work just fine for the older one, too. This code is an almost direct lift from this post here, so please see that post as well as responses for further questions. As I said in the comments above, your code is looking at all of the images from the document-perspective while the code that I linked to goes page-by-page.

Please read all of the comments in the other post, especially this one which explains that this ONLY works for JPG images. There's a lot of different types of images that PDF supports so unless you know that you're only dealing with JPGs you'll need to add a bunch of more code. See this post and this post for some hints.

        string testFile = System.IO.Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop), "Doc1.pdf");
        string outputPath = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop);
        int pageNum = 1;

        PdfReader pdf = new PdfReader(testFile);
        PdfDictionary pg = pdf.GetPageN(pageNum);
        PdfDictionary res = (PdfDictionary)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(pg.Get(PdfName.RESOURCES));
        PdfDictionary xobj = (PdfDictionary)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(res.Get(PdfName.XOBJECT));
        if (xobj == null) { return; }
        foreach (PdfName name in xobj.Keys) {
            PdfObject obj = xobj.Get(name);
            if (!obj.IsIndirect()) { continue; }
            PdfDictionary tg = (PdfDictionary)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(obj);
            PdfName type = (PdfName)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(tg.Get(PdfName.SUBTYPE));
            if (!type.Equals(PdfName.IMAGE)) { continue; }
            int XrefIndex = Convert.ToInt32(((PRIndirectReference)obj).Number.ToString(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
            PdfObject pdfObj = pdf.GetPdfObject(XrefIndex);
            PdfStream pdfStrem = (PdfStream)pdfObj;
            byte[] bytes = PdfReader.GetStreamBytesRaw((PRStream)pdfStrem);
            if (bytes == null) { continue; }
            using (System.IO.MemoryStream memStream = new System.IO.MemoryStream(bytes)) {
                memStream.Position = 0;
                System.Drawing.Image img = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(memStream);
                if (!Directory.Exists(outputPath))
                    Directory.CreateDirectory(outputPath);

                string path = Path.Combine(outputPath, String.Format(@"{0}.jpg", pageNum));
                System.Drawing.Imaging.EncoderParameters parms = new System.Drawing.Imaging.EncoderParameters(1);
                parms.Param[0] = new System.Drawing.Imaging.EncoderParameter(System.Drawing.Imaging.Encoder.Compression, 0);
                var jpegEncoder = ImageCodecInfo.GetImageEncoders().ToList().Find(x => x.FormatID == ImageFormat.Jpeg.Guid);
                img.Save(path, jpegEncoder, parms);

            }
        }