Open PIL image from byte file

I have this image with size 128 x 128 pixels and RGBA stored as byte values in my memory. But

from PIL import Image

image_data = ... # byte values of the image
image = Image.frombytes('RGBA', (128,128), image_data)
image.show()

throws the exception

ValueError: not enough image data

Why? What am I doing wrong?

Contents hide

Answers:

Method 1

Method 2

Answers:

Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue immediately. So please treat them as advisements. If you found the post helpful (or not), leave a comment & I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

Method 1

The documentation for Image.open says that it can accept a file-like object, so you should be able to pass in a io.BytesIO object created from the bytes object containing the encoded image:

from PIL import Image
import io

image_data = ... # byte values of the image
image = Image.open(io.BytesIO(image_data))
image.show()

Method 2

You can try this:

image = Image.frombytes('RGBA', (128,128), image_data, 'raw')

Source Code:

def frombytes(mode, size, data, decoder_name="raw", *args):
    param mode: The image mode.
    param size: The image size.
    param data: A byte buffer containing raw data for the given mode.
    param decoder_name: What decoder to use.

All methods was sourced from stackoverflow.com or stackexchange.com, is licensed under cc by-sa 2.5, cc by-sa 3.0 and cc by-sa 4.0

0 0 votes

Article Rating