From 0e56549082954483ed1bd3be85bf8175576ca26f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maksym Lysak <mly@zurich.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 11:38:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] removed base64 dependency in msword_backend

Signed-off-by: Maksym Lysak <mly@zurich.ibm.com>
---
 docling/backend/msword_backend.py | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docling/backend/msword_backend.py b/docling/backend/msword_backend.py
index 25e211c2..089e94c2 100644
--- a/docling/backend/msword_backend.py
+++ b/docling/backend/msword_backend.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import base64
 import logging
 from io import BytesIO
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -491,7 +490,6 @@ class MsWordDocumentBackend(DeclarativeDocumentBackend):
 
     def handle_pictures(self, element, docx_obj, drawing_blip, doc):
         def get_docx_image(element, drawing_blip):
-            base64_image_data = None
             rId = drawing_blip[0].get(
                 "{http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships}embed"
             )