The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. This library supports many file formats, and provides powerful image processing and graphics capabilities.
| Tags | multimedia Graphics Software Development Libraries Python Modules Capture Screen Capture Graphics Conversion Viewers |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Python BSD Original |
| Operating Systems | Mac OS X Mac OS X Windows Windows Windows POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | Python |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release improves PNG compression, reads interlaced PNG files, adds various TGA improvements, bumps the block threshold to 16 megabytes, fixes a rounding error in ImagingDrawWideLine, and adds many bugfixes.


Release Notes: This release adds adds improved build scripts, TrueType/OpenType font support, memory mapping support for non-Windows platforms, screen and clipboard grabbing on Windows, support for CSS-style color strings, support for IPTC/NAA and EXIF metadata, and more.


Release Notes: Improved support for 16-bit images, clipboard support in Windows, and other minor enhancements.


Release Notes: Support for OpenType/TrueType fonts, CSS3-style color names, improved IPTC support for TIFF and JPEG, and lots of minor enhancements and bugfixes.


Release Notes: Some distutils build scripts, improved resampling, screen grabbing support (windows only), and more.