automatically extracting images from word file

[bof]

Can anyone advise if it's possible to extract and save .bmp images
embedded in a Word document using VBA. If yes any pointers to the code
needed?

MTIA

 

[Tony Jollans]

See my post here:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mi...18c2fd960af/e7057c173b56a361#e7057c173b56a361

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi bof

Just save the file as a web page and Word will save each image as a separate
file.

See here for more information:
http://www.gmayor.com/extract_images_from_word.htm

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word

 

[bof]

Hi bof

Just save the file as a web page and Word will save each image as a separate
file.

Hi Shauna, thanks for the reply, unfortunately the file is not
displaying the images, giving an error message about lack of memory/disk
space, when it's saved as HTML it creates a blank HTML page, so I was
hoping to try another tack and access them through VBA.

 

[ChrisHarrington]

If you save doc as XML, you will find images in the file as base64
surrounded by a tag like:
<w:binData w:name="wordml://02000001.jpg">
Extract the text and use a base64 to binary converter

 

[bof]

See my post here:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.word.vba.general/brows
e_thread/thread/5a9ed18c2fd960af/e7057c173b56a361#e7057c173b56a361

Thanks, I tried with no success, and it left Word only starting in safe
mode, now fixed by deleting normal.dot. I think the file must be corrupt
in some way.

 

[bof]

Just a note to say thanks for everyone's input. The problem is now
solved, it was a corrupt file that was causing the problems, fortunately
I never throw anything away and found a good version of the file on a
dusty backup CD from seven years ago. I've now extracted the images by
saving as HTML.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

See the following page of fellow MVP Steven Lebans website

http://www.lebans.com/msword.htm

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[bof]

See the following page of fellow MVP Steven Lebans website

http://www.lebans.com/msword.htm

Many thanks for the pointer