Python : 'Page' object has no attribute 'getImageList' where I try to extract image from pdf

Question

I try to extract some images from my pdf file, I used several methods but most of them were based on the Fitz library.

import fitz 
import io
from PIL import Image


pdf_file = fitz.open("my_file_pdf.pdf")


for page_index in range(len(pdf_file)):
    # get the page itself
    page = pdf_file[page_index]
    image_list = page.getImageList()
    # printing number of images found in this page
    if image_list:
        print(f"[+] Found  {len(image_list)} images in page {page_index}")
    else:
        print("[!] No images found on the given pdf page", page_index)
    for image_index, img in enumerate(page.getImageList(), start=1):
        print(img)
        print(image_index)
        # get the XREF of the image
        xref = img[0]
        # extract the image bytes
        base_image = pdf_file.extractImage(xref)
        image_bytes = base_image["image"]
        # get the image extension
        image_ext = base_image["ext"]
        # load it to PIL
        image = Image.open(io.BytesIO(image_bytes))
        # save it to local disk
        image.save(open(f"image{page_index+1}_{image_index}.{image_ext}", "wb")) 

This code gives me the error :

AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-e5b882e88684> in <module>
     11     # get the page itself
     12     page = pdf_file[page_index]
---> 13     image_list = page.getImageList()
     14     # printing number of images found in this page
     15     if image_list:

AttributeError: 'Page' object has no attribute 'getImageList'

However according to the documentation this is the way to use this function so where could the problem come from?

Answer 1

Take a look at: https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/znames.html

It seems that getImageList is a deprecated name. Here you can find a list of new ones.

Answer 2

Instead of page.getImageList() try using page.get_images()

A list of attributes and methods belonging to the Page object is given at https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/page.html. getImageList() is not included however get_images() is.