I've put together some code to demonstrate what my goal is though looping pixel by pixel it's rather slow.
import Image def check_whitespace(): im = Image.open("\\\\server\\vol\\temp\\image.jpg") size = im.size i = 0 whitePixCount = 0 while i in range(size[1]): j = 0 while j in range(size[0]): p1 = im.getpixel((j,i)) if p1 == (255, 255, 255): whitePixCount = whitePixCount + 1 if whitePixCount >= 492804: ## ((image dimensions 1404 x 1404) / 4) 25% return "image no good" j = j + 1 i = i + 1 print whitePixCount return "image is good" print check_whitespace() "Poppy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:... >I need to write a program to examine images (JPG) and determine how much >area is whitespace. We need to throw a returned image out if too much of it >is whitespace from the dataset we're working with. I've been examining the >Python Image Library and can not determine if it offers the needed >functionality. Does anyone have suggestions of other image libraries I >should be looking at it, or if PIL can do what I need? > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list