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How To Extract Images From Google Docs and Google

Learn how extract all the embedded images from a Google Document or Google Slides presentation and save them as individual files in a specified folder in your Google Drive.

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How To Extract Images From Google Docs and Google

Learn how extract all the embedded images from a Google Document or Google Slides presentation and save them as individual files in a specified folder in your Google Drive.

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How to Extract Images from Google

Docs and Google Slides

Learn how extract all the embedded images from a Google Document or Google Slides
presentation and save them as individual files in a specified folder in your Google Drive.

Imagine you’re working with a lengthy Google Document, or a Google Slides


presentation, and you need to extract all the embedded images from the text and
save them as individual files.

Extract Individual Images

A simple solution to address this issue is as follows: convert your Google Document
or Google Slide into a web page. Here’s how you can do it:

Go to the “File” menu. Select the “Share” submenu and then choose “Publish to
Web.” It will generate a public web page that contains all the images from your
document or slide. You can simply right-click an image on the page and select the
“Save Image” option download it to your local disk.

What we have just discussed is a manual process but we can easily automate this
with the help of Google Apps Script.

Extract all Images from a Google Document

Open your Google Document containing the images, go to the Extensions menu and
choose Apps Script. Copy-paste the code below and run
the saveGoogleDocsImages function to download all images to a specific folder in your
Google Drive.

The images are sequentially numbered and the file extension is the same as that of
the embedded inline image.

function saveGoogleDocsImages() {

// Define the folder name where the extracted images will be saved

const folderName = 'Document Images';

// Check if a folder with the specified name already exists

const folders = DriveApp.getFoldersByName(folderName);

// If the folder exists, use it; otherwise, create a new folder

const folder = folders.hasNext() ? folders.next() : DriveApp.createFolder(folderName);

// Get all the images in the document's body and loop through each image

DocumentApp.getActiveDocument()
.getBody()

.getImages()

.forEach((image, index) => {

// Get the image data as a Blob

const blob = image.getBlob();

// Extract the file extension from the Blob's content type (e.g., 'jpeg', 'png')

const [, fileExtension] = blob.getContentType().split('/');

// Generate a unique file name for each image based on its position in the document

const fileName = `Image #${index + 1}.${fileExtension}`;

// Set the Blob's name to the generated file name

blob.setName(fileName);

// Create a new file in the specified folder with the image data

folder.createFile(blob);

// Log a message indicating that the image has been saved


Logger.log(`Saved ${fileName}`);

});

Extract all Images from Google Slides

The Apps Script code to download images from a Google Slides presentation is
similar. The function iterates over the slides in the presentation and then for each
slide, the function iterates over the images in that slide.

function extractImagesFromSlides() {

// Define the folder name where the extracted images will be saved

const folderName = 'Presentation Images';

// Check if a folder with the specified name already exists

const folders = DriveApp.getFoldersByName(folderName);

// If the folder exists, use it; otherwise, create a new folder

const folder = folders.hasNext() ? folders.next() : DriveApp.createFolder(folderName);

// Iterate through each slide in the active presentation

SlidesApp.getActivePresentation()

.getSlides()
.forEach((slide, slideNumber) => {

// Retrieve all images on the current slide

slide.getImages().forEach((image, index) => {

// Get the image data as a Blob

const blob = image.getBlob();

// Extract the file extension from the Blob's content type (e.g., 'jpeg', 'png')

const fileExtension = blob.getContentType().split('/')[1];

const fileName = `Slide${slideNumber + 1}_Image${index + 1}.${fileExtension}`;

// Set the Blob's name to the generated file name

blob.setName(fileName);

// Create a new file in the specified folder with the image data

folder.createFile(blob);

Logger.log(`Saved ${fileName}`);

});
});

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