Converting jpeg string to PIL image object

Question

I've been handed a list of files from the backend of an application that are supposed to be jpeg files. However for the life of me I haven't been able to convert them into PIL image objects. When I call

str(curimg)

I get back:

<type 'str'>

. I have tried using open(), .read, io.BytesIO(img.read() and also doing nothing to it, but it keeps seeing it as a string. When i print the string, I get unrecognizable characters. Does anyone know how to tell python how to intepret this string as a jpeg and convert it into a pill image where I can call .size and np.array on?

Answer 1

The same thing but a bit simpler

from PIL import Image
import io
Image.open(io.BytesIO(image))

Note:

If image is on the web; you need to download it first.

import requests
image = requests.get(image_url).content  #download image from web

And then pass it to io module.

io.BytesIO(image)

If image is in your hd; you can open directly with PIL.

Image.open('image_file.jpg')  #image in your HD