diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f4ec295c5..97f93ad19 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -31,3 +31,4 @@ PyPDF2_pdfLocation.txt
 .python-version
 tests/pdf_cache/
 docs/meta/CHANGELOG.md
+extracted-images/
diff --git a/tests/test_workflows.py b/tests/test_workflows.py
index 28d52552c..33a7e0c87 100644
--- a/tests/test_workflows.py
+++ b/tests/test_workflows.py
@@ -2,12 +2,16 @@
 import os
 import sys
 from io import BytesIO
+from pathlib import Path
 
 import pytest
 
 from PyPDF2 import PdfMerger, PdfReader, PdfWriter
+from PyPDF2.constants import ImageAttributes as IA
 from PyPDF2.constants import PageAttributes as PG
+from PyPDF2.constants import Ressources as RES
 from PyPDF2.errors import PdfReadError, PdfReadWarning
+from PyPDF2.filters import _xobj_to_image
 
 from . import get_pdf_from_url
 
@@ -372,3 +376,35 @@ def test_merge_output():
 
     # Cleanup
     merger.close()
+
+
+def test_image_extraction():
+    url = "https://corpora.tika.apache.org/base/docs/govdocs1/994/994636.pdf"
+    name = "tika-994636.pdf"
+    data = BytesIO(get_pdf_from_url(url, name=name))
+    reader = PdfReader(data)
+
+    images_extracted = []
+    root = Path("extracted-images")
+    if not root.exists():
+        os.mkdir(root)
+
+    for page in reader.pages:
+        if RES.XOBJECT in page[PG.RESOURCES]:
+            x_object = page[PG.RESOURCES][RES.XOBJECT].get_object()
+
+            for obj in x_object:
+                if x_object[obj][IA.SUBTYPE] == "/Image":
+                    extension, byte_stream = _xobj_to_image(x_object[obj])
+                    if extension is not None:
+                        filename = root / (obj[1:] + extension)
+                        with open(filename, "wb") as img:
+                            img.write(byte_stream)
+                        images_extracted.append(filename)
+
+    # Cleanup
+    do_cleanup = True  # set this to False for manual inspection
+    if do_cleanup:
+        for filepath in images_extracted:
+            if os.path.exists(filepath):
+                os.remove(filepath)