This is a small python script to extract the image from a Belgian electronic identity card.

Before running this script you will need a few dependencies, notably, python 3, pip3 and the python module eidreader.

To install eidreader you will also need to have swig installed. On an Arch system, the installation looks like this:

sudo pacman -S python3 swig
sudo pip install eidreader

After you installed the dependencies, you can just run the script:

python3 eid-image-extractor.py

After this, if everything went well, you will see a file with the name {NATIONAL_NUMBER}.jpeg next to the script.