Get InlineImage in Specific Tables from Google Document

Question

I encountered the following problem. I have a Google Document, that contains a bunch of table objects and some of those tables contain inline images themselves.

With the Body.getImages() function I should be able to get the images of the whole document (right?). But is there any way to get the images from a specific table or is there a way to determine in which tables the images retrieved by the Body.getImages() method are located?

In case you are wondering what this is used for: My Google Doc is used to store several multiple-choice exam questions, where each question is represented by a table. I am trying to write a script to export these questions to a specific format and I encountered the problem that some of those questions contain images.

I think that providing your current script and the detail of issue of the script will help users think of the solution. — Tanaike

Jeremy Irons Jeremy Irons · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-23T20:10:17

Correct - body.getImages() will return an array of images.

We can use this array of images to find the corresponding table's for each image. If we use a recursive function on each image, we can getParent() up the document tree until the Parent Table to a particular image is found, then we list the element number (the ChildIndex) for the Table. If there is a "Question #" header in the table, we can search for it and return the question number of the located Table.

    function myFunction() {
      var doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
      var body = doc.getBody();
      var tables = body.getTables();
      var images = doc.getBody().getImages();
      
      Logger.log("Found " + images.length + " images");
      Logger.log("Found " + tables.length + " tables");
      
      //list body element #'s for each tables
      let tableList = []
      tables.forEach(table => tableList.push(String(table.getParent().getChildIndex(table))))
      Logger.log("Tables at body element #s: ", tableList); 
      
      function findQuestionNumber (element, index) {
        parent = element.getParent() 
        //IF found the parent Table
        if (parent.getType() == DocumentApp.ElementType.TABLE) {
          //Find the question # from the Table
          let range = parent.findText("Question")
          //Output where this image was found. (The childindex)
          Logger.log("found Image", String(index + 1), "in ", range.getElement().getParent().getText(), " at body element #", String(parent.getParent().getChildIndex(parent)));
          return
          //use recursion to continue up the tree until the parent Table is found
        } else {
          findQuestionNumber(parent, index)
        }
      }
     
      //Run Function for each image in getImages() Array
      images.forEach((element, index) => findQuestionNumber(element, index));
      
    }

Get InlineImage in Specific Tables from Google Document

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