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How to Convert Images
Jorj X. McKie edited this page Sep 28, 2019
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Just as a feature among others, dealing with images using PyMuPDF is easy. It may avoid using other graphics packages like PIL/Pillow in many cases. Notwithstanding that interfacing with Pillow is almost trivial.
Input Formats | Output Formats | Description |
---|---|---|
JPEG | - | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
BMP | - | Windows Bitmap |
JXR | - | JPEG Extended Range |
JPX | - | JPEG 2000 |
GIF | - | Graphics Interchange Format |
TIFF | - | Tagged Image File Format |
PNG | PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
PNM | PNM | Portable Anymap |
PGM | PGM | Portable Graymap |
PBM | PBM | Portable Bitmap |
PPM | PPM | Portable Pixmap |
PAM | PAM | Portable Arbitrary Map |
- | PSD | Adobe Photoshop Document |
- | PS | Adobe Postscript |
The general scheme is as simple as follows:
import fitz
# ...
pix = fitz.Pixmap("input.xxx") # input.xxx: a file in any of the supported input formats
pix.writeImage("output.yyy") # yyy is any of the supported output formats
- The argument of
fitz.Pixmap(arg)
can be a file or abytes
orio.BytesIO
object containing a file image - Instead of creating an output file like above, you can also create a bytes object via
pix.getImageData("yyy")
and pass this around. - As a matter of course, input and output formats must be compatible in terms of colorspaces and transparency. The
Pixmap
class has batteries included for cases, where this is not so. - Since v1.14.6,
pix.writeImage()
no longer requires an extra format parameter: the format is inferred from the filename's extension.
import fitz
pix = fitz.Pixmap("myfamily.jpg")
pix.writeImage("myfamily.psd")
from PIL import Image
import fitz
pix = fitz.Pixmap(...)
img = Image.frombytes("RGB", [pix.width, pix.height], pix.samples)
img.save("output.jpg", "JPEG")
import fitz
if str is bytes: # this is Python 2!
import Tkinter as tk
else: # Python 3 or later!
import tkinter as tk
pix = fitz.Pixmap("input.jpg")
tkimg = tk.PhotoImage(data=pix.getImageData("ppm")) # PPM is among the tk-supported formats
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