Extract Images from DOCX with cURL, No Word Needed
A DOCX file is a ZIP container, and every picture placed in the document sits inside it as a separate PNG, JPEG or EMF file. Renaming the document and unpacking it by hand works once, but it does not scale to a folder of reports.
GroupDocs.Parser Cloud reads that structure directly and returns the embedded images: photographs, logos, charts pasted as pictures and scanned pages. The same request also works on DOC and more than 50 other file formats, so mixed archives need one code path.
From cURL you authenticate with a Client ID and Secret, send the file name in a small JSON body, and read the list of extracted images from the response. Nothing is installed locally, so the call fits a shell script or a nightly job.
Text and document metadata are available through the same API when a project needs them later, and the free online extractor covers a single Word file without any code at all.
