How to extract images from tables in a Word document?

Syncfusion® Essential® DocIO is a .NET Core Word Library used to create, read, edit, and convert Word documents programmatically without Microsoft Word or interop dependencies. Using this library, you can extract images from tables in a Word document using C#.

Steps to extract images from tables in Word document using C#

1. Create a new C# Console application project.
2. Install the Syncfusion.DocIO.Net.Core NuGet package as a reference to your project from Nuget.org.
   
   

3. Include the following namespace in the Program.cs file​.
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using Syncfusion.DocIO;
using Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS;

4. Use the following code snippet to extract images from tables, nested tables within sections, headers/footers, and all areas of a Word document.
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//Creates an instance of WordDocument class
FileStream fileStreamPath = new FileStream("../../../Input.docx", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite);
WordDocument document = new WordDocument(fileStreamPath, FormatType.Docx);

//Get the list of pictures
List<Entity> entities = document.FindAllItemsByProperty(EntityType.Picture, "OwnerParagraph.IsInCell", "True");

//Save all the images to a folder
for (int i = 0; i < entities.Count; i++)
{
   WPicture picture = entities[i] as WPicture;
   //Get the image 
   System.Drawing.Image image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(new MemoryStream(picture.ImageBytes));
   //Save the image as PNG
   string imgFileName = @"../../../Images/Output" + i + ".png";
   FileStream imgFile = new FileStream(imgFileName, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite);
   image.Save(imgFile, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
   //Dispose the instances.
   imgFile.Dispose();
   image.Dispose();
}

//Closes the document
document.Close();

You can download a complete working sample of extracting images from tables in a Word document from GitHub.

Take a moment to peruse the [documentation](https where you can find basic Word document processing options along with the features like mail merge, merge, split, and compare documents, find and replace text in the Word document, protect the Word documents, and most importantly, the PDF and Image conversions with code examples.

Conclusion
I hope you enjoyed learning about how to extract images from tables in a Word document using .NET Core Word Library.

You can refer to our ASP.NET Core DocIO feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations and documentation, and how to quickly get started for configuration specifications. You can also explore our ASP.NET Core DocIO example to understand how to create and manipulate data.

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