From http://stackoverflow.com/a/34116472/14420 in answer to " Extract images from PDF without resampling, in python?"

2015-Dec-11 - result.txt

> pip install --upgrade https://github.com/sylvainpelissier/PyPDF2/archive/master.zip
Collecting https://github.com/sylvainpelissier/PyPDF2/archive/master.zip
C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.3\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\requests\packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py:90: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
  InsecurePlatformWarning
C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.3\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\requests\packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py:90: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
  InsecurePlatformWarning
  Downloading https://github.com/sylvainpelissier/PyPDF2/archive/master.zip
     | 307kB 5.9MB/s
Installing collected packages: PyPDF2
  Found existing installation: PyPDF2 1.25.1
    Uninstalling PyPDF2-1.25.1:
      Successfully uninstalled PyPDF2-1.25.1
  Running setup.py install for PyPDF2
Successfully installed PyPDF2-1.25.1

[py27] E:\temp
> pip list
arcplus (0.1, d:\b\code\arcplus)
comtypes (1.1.2)
matplotlib (1.3.0)
numpy (1.7.1)
Pillow (3.0.0)
pip (7.1.2)
pyparsing (1.5.7)
PyPDF2 (1.25.1)
pywin32 (219)
setuptools (15.0)


[py27] E:\temp\pdf-image-extractor
> python pdf-image-extractor.py  "Seige of Vicksburg Sample OCR.pdf"
PdfReadWarning: Xref table not zero-indexed. ID numbers for objects will not be corrected. [pdf.py:1722]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pdf-image-extractor.py", line 21, in <module>
    if xObject[obj]['/Filter'] == '/FlateDecode':
  File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.3\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\generic.py", line 512, in __getitem__
    return dict.__getitem__(self, key).getObject()
KeyError: '/Filter'

2015-Dec-11_pdf-image-extractor.py

import PyPDF2

from PIL import Image

if __name__ == '__main__':
##    pdf = r'e:\temp\dctdecode.pdf'
    pdf = r'e:\temp\Seige of Vicksburg Sample OCR.pdf'

    input1 = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(open(pdf, "rb"))
    page0 = input1.getPage(0)
    xObject = page0['/Resources']['/XObject'].getObject()

    for obj in xObject:
        if xObject[obj]['/Subtype'] == '/Image':
            size = (xObject[obj]['/Width'], xObject[obj]['/Height'])
            data = xObject[obj].getData()
            if xObject[obj]['/ColorSpace'] == '/DeviceRGB':
                mode = "RGB"
            else:
                mode = "P"

            if xObject[obj]['/Filter'] == '/FlateDecode':
                img = Image.frombytes(mode, size, data)
                img.save(obj[1:] + ".png")
            elif xObject[obj]['/Filter'] == '/DCTDecode':
                img = open(obj[1:] + ".jpg", "wb")
                img.write(data)
                img.close()
            elif xObject[obj]['/Filter'] == '/JPXDecode':
                img = open(obj[1:] + ".jp2", "wb")
                img.write(data)
                img.close()

pdf's used:

• http://www.digitalscanning.com/images/Samples/Siege%20of%20Vicksburg%20sample/Seige%20of%20Vicksburg%20Sample%20OCR.pdf
• https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0ahUKEwjWk9-Pp8_JAhUH4GMKHSaXAoYQFggoMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbhasha.googlecode.com%2Fsvn-history%2Fr8%2Fbranches%2Fitext-bangla%2Fsrc%2Ftest%2Fresources%2Fcom%2Fitextpdf%2Ftext%2Fpdf%2Fparser%2FPdfImageObjectTest%2Fdctdecode.pdf&usg=AFQjCNEVVsHtMmdzfpBdCrQcvh_VVpSiEg&sig2=4geTYaKCMHLK-mSntb59eg&bvm=bv.109395566,d.cGc&cad=rja

I removed the old result console reports, since the new version makes those errors obsolete.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/xx/xx/extract.py", line 16, in <module>
    data = xObject[obj].getData()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/PyPDF2/generic.py", line 841, in getData
    decoded._data = filters.decodeStreamData(self)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/PyPDF2/filters.py", line 361, in decodeStreamData
    raise NotImplementedError("unsupported filter %s" % filterType)
NotImplementedError: unsupported filter /CCITTFaxDecode

getpdfimage('ana.pdf')
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in
getpdfimage('ana.pdf')

File "", line 9, in getpdfimage
data = xObject[obj].getData()

File "C:\Users\nmb31\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\generic.py", line 841, in getData
decoded._data = filters.decodeStreamData(self)

File "C:\Users\nmb31\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\filters.py", line 361, in decodeStreamData
raise NotImplementedError("unsupported filter %s" % filterType)

NotImplementedError: unsupported filter /DCTDecode