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Introduction

In this example, we’ll use DocParse to extract images from a battery manual. We’ll go through the important code snippets below to see what’s going on. Let’s focus on the following code that calls the DocParse partition API to parse the manual, extracting its embedded images, inline text, and tables: 
from PIL import Image
from io import BytesIO
import pdf2image
import base64

import aryn_sdk
from aryn_sdk.partition import  partition_file, draw_with_boxes, convert_image_element

aryn_api_key = 'YOUR-KEY-HERE'
file_name = 'powerwall_parts_boards.pdf'

# Parse the file extracting images, inline text embedded in the PDF,
# and tables using Aryn's default table extraction model.

# returns a JSON object with parsed elements of the PDF
with open(file_name, 'rb') as file:
  partitioned_file = partition_file(file, aryn_api_key=aryn_api_key,
                                    extract_images=True,
                                    table_mode="standard",
                                    text_mode="inline")
If you inspect the returned partitioned_file, you’ll notice that it’s a large JSON object with details about all the parsed elements in the PDF (checkout this page to understand the schema of the returned JSON object in detail). Below, we show the first few elements of partitioned_file: 
[
   {
      "type":"Image",
      "bbox":[
         0.9439504825367647,
         0.005599567673423073,
         0.9984484145220588,
         0.058024385625665836
      ],
      "properties":{
         "score":0.6607702374458313,
         "image_size":[
            112,
            136
         ],
         "image_mode":"RGB",
         "image_format":"None",
         "page_number":1
      },
      "binary_representation": ...
   },
   {
      "type":"Section-header",
      "bbox":[
         0.06352920981014476,
         0.08379009593616832,
         0.34880245433134194,
         0.10395796342329545
      ],
      "properties":{
         "score":0.8269602656364441,
         "page_number":1
      },
      "text_representation":"Make AC Power Connections"
   },
   ...
]

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Extracting the Image

Below, we show an Image element that contains the information about the first schematic image in the file. You see key properties of the image, including its bounding box (which indicates the coordinates of the image in the page) and a base64 encoded binary representation of the image. 
{
   "type":"Image",
   "bbox":[
      0.07296839545754825,
      0.11070712002840909,
      0.3344818833295037,
      0.44303000710227275
   ],
   "properties":{
      "score":0.8690586090087891,
      "image_size":[
         465,
         751
      ],
      "image_mode":"RGB",
      "image_format":"None",
      "page_number":1
   },
   "binary_representation": ...
}

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Output Image

You can then process this JSON however you’d like for further analysis. For example, let’s use the Pillow Image module from python to display the extracted image on its own. 
## extract all the images from the JSON and print out the JSON representation of the first image
images = [e for e in partitioned_file['elements'] if e['type'] == 'Image']
first_image = images[1]

## read in the image and display it
image_width = first_image['properties']['image_size'][0]
image_height = first_image['properties']['image_size'][1]
image_mode = first_image['properties']['image_mode']
image = Image.frombytes(image_mode,  (image_width, image_height), base64.b64decode(first_image['binary_representation']))

#display the image
image
As you can see, the image has been successfully extracted from the PDF with clarity.

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Captions

If you want to associate captions with the images, you can reprocess the file with the associate_captions parameter within image_extraction_options set to True. 
with open(file_name, 'rb') as file:
  partitioned_file_caption = partition_file(file, aryn_api_key=aryn_api_key,
                                            extract_images=True,
                                            table_mode="standard",
                                            text_mode="inline",
                                            image_extraction_options={"associate_captions": True})
After enabling the associate_captions parameter, you’ll notice that the image is now associated with a caption, as seen below.
The caption is also returned in the caption field of the element. 
{
   "type":"Image",
   "bbox":[
      0.07296839545754825,
      0.11070712002840909,
      0.3344818833295037,
      0.44303000710227275
   ],
   "properties":{
      "score":0.8690586090087891,
      "image_size":[
         465,
         751
      ],
      "image_mode":"RGB",
      "image_format":"None",
      "caption":{
         "type":"Caption",
         "bbox":[
            0.07958163990693934,
            0.418170859596946,
            0.32795234231387865,
            0.44303000710227275
         ],
         "properties":{
            "score":0.4383608400821686,
            "_element_index":19,
            "font_size":8.04000000000002
         },
         "text_representation":"Install Fuse and Connect Main Service Conductors"
      },
      "page_number":1
   },
   "binary_representation": ...
}
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