pypdf equivalent of PyMuPDF's pixmap?
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Does I often deal with PDFs where many pages are comprised primarily of vector graphics (ex. a plot) along with some image overlays. I would like to extract the vector graphics as raster graphics and perform image processing using other purpose-built tools. |
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No, pypdf does not have the concept of pixmaps, as it has no actual rendering capabilities. To render an image of a page or a page region, I tend to use Speaking of your use case, you should be able to call |
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Thanks, @stefan6419846 , for the quick and clear answer regarding rendering capabilities. |
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No, pypdf does not have the concept of pixmaps, as it has no actual rendering capabilities.
To render an image of a page or a page region, I tend to use
pdftocairodirectly. Image objects can be extracted as Pillow image objects - either throughpage.imagesor for any image content stream not covered by this method by callingcontent_stream.decode_as_image().Speaking of your use case, you should be able to call
image.replace()to get rid of the overlays if required (see https://pypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/PageObject.html#pypdf._page.PageObject.images) and then render the page/page region with your tool of choice.