Question

I have an image in a QImage and I want to process it in PIL before I display it. While the ImageQT class lets me convert a PIL Image to a QImage, there doesn’t appear to anything to go from a QImage to a PIL Image.

Answer 1

I convert it from QImage to PIL with this code:

img = QImage("/tmp/example.png")
buffer = QBuffer()
buffer.open(QIODevice.ReadWrite)
img.save(buffer, "PNG")

strio = cStringIO.StringIO()
strio.write(buffer.data())
buffer.close()
strio.seek(0)
pil_im = Image.open(strio)

I tried many combinations before getting it to work.