Is there a way to save an inline shape from docx as an image file?

Question

I'm trying to parse a docx file using python-docx. The file contains images and text. Basically i need a way to take an image(an InlineShape object) from the file and save it as a separate image (like "smth.jpg"). Is there a way to do that? From reading the API docs it doesn't seem like it, but maybe i'm missing something.

Answer 1

You can use the docsx2python python module for this.

Firstly, install the module by running the following command:

pip install docx2python

Now just run the following code:

from docx2python import docx2python

content = docx2python('my_document.docx', 'output_image_directory')

The extracted images will be stored in the directory you passed in as the second argument.