diff --git a/tests/test_00veryfirsttests.py b/tests/test_00veryfirsttests.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2af5602c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_00veryfirsttests.py
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+"""Test the pypdf.filters module."""
+import string
+import sys
+from io import BytesIO
+from pathlib import Path
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+import pytest
+
+from pypdf import PdfReader
+
+from . import get_data_from_url
+
+filter_inputs = (
+    # "", '', """""",
+    string.ascii_lowercase,
+    string.ascii_uppercase,
+    string.ascii_letters,
+    string.digits,
+    string.hexdigits,
+    string.punctuation,
+    string.whitespace,  # Add more...
+)
+
+TESTS_ROOT = Path(__file__).parent.resolve()
+PROJECT_ROOT = TESTS_ROOT.parent
+RESOURCE_ROOT = PROJECT_ROOT / "resources"
+
+#    Tests to be run before others
+
+
+# issues if images is used before due to some initialisations
+@pytest.mark.enable_socket()
+def test_image_without_pillow():
+    with patch.dict(sys.modules):
+        sys.modules["PIL"] = None
+        url = "https://corpora.tika.apache.org/base/docs/govdocs1/914/914102.pdf"
+        name = "tika-914102.pdf"
+        data = BytesIO(get_data_from_url(url, name=name))
+        reader = PdfReader(data, strict=True)
+
+        for page in reader.pages:
+            with pytest.raises(ImportError) as exc:
+                page.images[0]
+            assert exc.value.args[0] == (
+                "pillow is required to do image extraction. "
+                "It can be installed via 'pip install pypdf[image]'"
+            )
diff --git a/tests/test_filters.py b/tests/test_filters.py
index d2765c86e..704d97d93 100644
--- a/tests/test_filters.py
+++ b/tests/test_filters.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 """Test the pypdf.filters module."""
 import string
-import sys
 from io import BytesIO
 from itertools import product as cartesian_product
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -258,24 +257,6 @@ def test_issue_399():
     reader.pages[1].extract_text()
 
 
-@pytest.mark.enable_socket()
-def test_image_without_imagemagic():
-    with patch.dict(sys.modules):
-        sys.modules["PIL"] = None
-        url = "https://corpora.tika.apache.org/base/docs/govdocs1/914/914102.pdf"
-        name = "tika-914102.pdf"
-        data = BytesIO(get_data_from_url(url, name=name))
-        reader = PdfReader(data, strict=True)
-
-        for page in reader.pages:
-            with pytest.raises(ImportError) as exc:
-                page.images[0]
-            assert exc.value.args[0] == (
-                "pillow is required to do image extraction. "
-                "It can be installed via 'pip install pypdf[image]'"
-            )
-
-
 @pytest.mark.enable_socket()
 def test_issue_1737():
     url = "https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/files/11068604/tt1.pdf"