Extract Images From Excel in Node.js

Extract Images From Excel in Node.js

The goal of this post is to extract images from Excel in Node.js programmatically. It is easy to extract images from documents such as Excel, Word files, and more. We will use this JavaScript library to perform image extraction with just a few lines of code. You can also process and manipulate Excel worksheets to meet business needs. Let’s start the guide and learn image extraction automation.

The following points are covered in this guide:

Image extraction library installation

The installation of this JavaScript library is quick. You can either download the API package or install it with the following commands:

npm install java
npm install aspose.cells

Extract Images From Excel in Node.js

You can open, modify, and save Excel documents using this JavaScript library. Below is the code snippet and steps to extract images from Excel files programmatically.

Steps:

  1. Create a Workbook object from the source file.
  2. Get the first worksheet by calling the get method.
  3. Invoke the getPictures().get method to retrieve the first picture in the first worksheet.
  4. Set the output image file path.
  5. Instantiate an ImageOrPrintOptions object.
  6. Choose the image format (JPEG or PNG).
  7. Save the image by calling the toImage method.

Copy and paste the following code into your main file:

The output is shown in the image below:

image extraction

Get a Free License

You can obtain a free temporary license to try the API without evaluation limitations.

Summing up

This concludes the blog post. You now know how to extract images from Excel in Node.js programmatically. The JavaScript library also supports many other operations to meet your software requirements. For full details, see the documentation.

We also recommend following our Getting Started guide.

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