Unable to write images to metadata

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i have my setup as

 elements = partition_pdf(
                filename=pdf_path,
                strategy="hi_res",
                chunking_strategy="by_title",
                include_orig_elements=True,
                extract_images_in_pdf=True,
                extract_image_block_types=["Image", "Table"],
                extract_image_block_output_dir=str(self.dirs["images"]),  # Save images to disk
                extract_image_block_to_payload=False,  # Ensure base64 is not used
                include_page_breaks=True,
                languages=self.ocr_languages,
                infer_table_structure=True,
                max_characters=500,
                new_after_n_chars=500,
                overlap=0
            )
            
            elements_dict = convert_to_dict(elements)

This extracts Tables and CompositeElements to a dict but when i write to JSON then i don't see any meta data to identify the images that are outputted including table and figure images. My PDF always shows zero images but there are tables and figures that are images that write but i don't see in the metadata. Why is this?

when i set this to True

extract_image_block_to_payload=True, # Ensure base64 is not used

Then i don't see anything in the metadata to easiliy identify that figure or table image and embed as an image. What am i doing wrong?