PDF Image Extractor Web App

This is a simple web app built with Flask that allows users to upload a PDF file, extract images from the PDF, and display the images in the web app.

Getting Started

To run the web app, you need to have Python 3 and Flask installed on your system. You can install Flask using pip:

pip install Flask

After installing Flask, clone this repository to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/your_username/pdf-image-extractor.git

Running the Web App

To run the web app, navigate to the project directory and run the pdfExtract.py script:

cd pdf-image-extractor
python pdfExtract.py

This will start the Flask development server on http://localhost:5000/. You can access the web app by opening this URL in your web browser.

Uploading a PDF File

To extract images from a PDF file, click the "Upload PDF" button on the home page. This will take you to the upload_pdf.html page, where you can select a PDF file to upload.

Extracting Images from the PDF

After uploading a PDF file, the web app will extract images from each page of the PDF using the PyMuPDF library. The extract_images_from_page function in pdfExtract.py is responsible for extracting images from the PDF.

Displaying Extracted Images

Once the images are extracted, they are saved to the images folder with unique filenames using uuid.uuid4(). The display_images.html template in the templates folder displays the extracted images using the url_for function.

Conclusion

That's it! You now have a simple web app that can extract images from a PDF file and display them in the browser. You can further customize and improve the app according to your requirements.

I hope this helps!