Recognize workflow images created by MS visio as text

[a4073631]

thank you for providing a good pdf parser.

If a figure is not saved as an image in a pdf, it will be extracted as text. ex) visio

Is there a way to extract pdf of these structures as an image as well?

Attached is the problematic pdf.

Code to reproduce the problem

import pdfplumber
pdf = pdfplumber.open('hi_test.pdf')
page = pdf.pages[0]
print(page.images)
output page.images= []

PDF file

hi_test.pdf

Environment

• pdfplumber version: 0.10.3
• Python version: 3.9.0
• OS: window 10

[jsvine]

Hi @a4073631, sure, page.to_image() will turn any page into an image. If you'd like to select only part of the page, you can use page.crop((x0, top, x1, bottom)).to_image(). The default resolution is 72 DPI; if you'd like to use a higher resolution, you can do so, e.g.: page.to_image(resolution=150).