Extracting Images from Presentation shapes

Images are often added to shapes and also frequently used as slides' backgrounds. The image objects are added through IImageCollection, which is a collection of IPPImage objects.

This article explains how you can extract the images added to presentations.

To extract an image from a presentation, you have to locate the image first by going through every slide and then going through every shape. Once the image is found or identified, you can extract it and save it as a new file.

    public void extractImages()
    {
        Presentation pres = new Presentation(folderPath + "ExtractImages.pptx");
        com.aspose.slides.IPPImage img = null;
        com.aspose.slides.IPPImage backImage = null;

        int slideIndex = 0;
        String imageType = "";
        boolean ifImageFound = false;
        for (int i = 0; i < pres.getSlides().size(); i++)
        {

            slideIndex++;
            //Accesses the first slide
            ISlide sl = pres.getSlides().get_Item(i);


            //Accesses the first slide Slide sl = pres.getSlideByPosition(i);
            if (sl.getBackground().getFillFormat().getFillType() == FillType.Picture)
            {
                //Gets the back picture
                backImage = sl.getBackground().getFillFormat().getPictureFillFormat().getPicture().getImage();
                imageType = getImageTType(backImage);

                String imagePath = folderPath + "backImage_" + "Slide_" + slideIndex + "." + imageType;
                //Saves the picture
                backImage.getImage().save(imagePath, (int) ImageFormat.getValue(ImageFormat.class, capitalize(imageType)));
            } else
            {
                if (sl.getLayoutSlide().getBackground().getFillFormat().getFillType() == FillType.Picture)
                {
                    //Gets the back picture
                    backImage = sl.getLayoutSlide().getBackground().getFillFormat().getPictureFillFormat().getPicture().getImage();
                    imageType = getImageTType(backImage);

                    String imagePath = folderPath + "backImage_" + "LayoutSlide_" + slideIndex + "." + imageType;
                    //Saves the picture
                    backImage.getImage().save(imagePath, (int) ImageFormat.getValue(ImageFormat.class, capitalize(imageType)));
                }
            }

            for (int j = 0; j < sl.getShapes().size(); j++)
            {
                // Accesses the shape containing an image
                IShape sh = sl.getShapes().get_Item(j);

                if (sh instanceof IAutoShape)
                {
                    IAutoShape ashp = (IAutoShape) sh;
                    if (ashp.getFillFormat().getFillType() == FillType.Picture)
                    {
                        img = ashp.getFillFormat().getPictureFillFormat().getPicture().getImage();
                        imageType = getImageTType(img);
                        ifImageFound = true;
                    }
                } else if (sh instanceof IPictureFrame)
                {
                    IPictureFrame pf = (IPictureFrame) sh;
                    img = pf.getPictureFormat().getPicture().getImage();
                    imageType = getImageTType(img);
                    ifImageFound = true;
                }

                //Sets the preferred image format
                if (ifImageFound)
                {
                    String imagePath = folderPath + "backImage_" + "Slide_" + slideIndex + "_Shape_" + j + "." + imageType;
                    //Saves the picture
                    img.getImage().save(imagePath, (int) ImageFormat.getValue(ImageFormat.class, capitalize(imageType)));
                }
                ifImageFound = false;
            }
        }
    }

    private String getImageTType(IPPImage image)
    {
        String imageContentType = image.getContentType();
        imageContentType = imageContentType.substring(imageContentType.indexOf("/") + 1);
        imageContentType = imageContentType.substring(imageContentType.indexOf("-") + 1);
        return imageContentType;
    }

    private String capitalize(String str)
    {
        if (str == null || str.length() <= 1) return str;
        return str.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + str.substring(1);
    }