Extract image from PDF using itextsharp

Resolved…

Even I got the same exception of “Parameter is not valid” and after so much of
work with the help of the link provided by der_chirurg
(http://kuujinbo.info/iTextSharp/CCITTFaxDecodeExtract.aspx ) I resolved it
and following is the code:

using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.IO;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser;
using Dotnet = System.Drawing.Image;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

namespace PDF_Parsing
{
    partial class PDF_ImgExtraction
    {
        string imgPath;
        private void ExtractImage(string pdfFile)
        {
            PdfReader pdfReader = new PdfReader(files[fileIndex]);
            for (int pageNumber = 1; pageNumber <= pdfReader.NumberOfPages; pageNumber++)
            {
                PdfReader pdf = new PdfReader(pdfFile);
                PdfDictionary pg = pdf.GetPageN(pageNumber);
                PdfDictionary res = (PdfDictionary)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(pg.Get(PdfName.RESOURCES));
                PdfDictionary xobj = (PdfDictionary)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(res.Get(PdfName.XOBJECT));
                foreach (PdfName name in xobj.Keys)
                {
                    PdfObject obj = xobj.Get(name);
                    if (obj.IsIndirect())
                    {
                        PdfDictionary tg = (PdfDictionary)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(obj);
                        string width = tg.Get(PdfName.WIDTH).ToString();
                        string height = tg.Get(PdfName.HEIGHT).ToString();
                        ImageRenderInfo imgRI = ImageRenderInfo.CreateForXObject(new Matrix(float.Parse(width), float.Parse(height)), (PRIndirectReference)obj, tg);
                        RenderImage(imgRI);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        private void RenderImage(ImageRenderInfo renderInfo)
        {
            PdfImageObject image = renderInfo.GetImage();
            using (Dotnet dotnetImg = image.GetDrawingImage())
            {
                if (dotnetImg != null)
                {
                    using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
                    {
                        dotnetImg.Save(ms, ImageFormat.Tiff);
                        Bitmap d = new Bitmap(dotnetImg);
                        d.Save(imgPath);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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