Turtles And Item Frames

I know that turtles can place item frames and can place items into item frames ( both with turtle.place() )
I would like to know if there is currently a way to remove items from frames and the frame itself and get them into the turtle's inventory successfully.

I have tried: turtle.suck(), turtle.dig(), turtle.place() without success.
I can remove what the item frame is attached to and it will fall to the ground, but then picking up those items is terribly difficult.

Item frames do not seem to be an accessible peripheral without OpenPeripherals. (peripheral.getType returns nil)

So I've sort of run out of ideas. Anyone know where to go from here?

The picture frame is an entity, not a block. Attack it.

Thanks, that makes sense now.