Reputation: 17218
I have this strange xml file which apparently contains jpeg image data:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AttachmentDocument xmlns="http://echa.europa.eu/schemas/iuclid5/20070330" documentReferencePK="ECB5-d18039fe-6fb0-44d6-be9e-d6ade38be543/0" encoding="0" fileSize="5788" fileTimestamp="2007-04-17T12:38:44Z" parentDocumentPK="ECB5-fb07efbf-ee93-4cdd-865b-49efa51cbd15/0" version="2007-03-19T14:13:29Z">
<modificationHistory>
<modification date="2007-05-10T09:00:00Z">
<comment>Created</comment>
<modificationBy>European Commision/Joint Research Centre/European Chemicals Bureau</modificationBy>
</modification>
</modificationHistory>
<ownershipProtection copyProtection="false" fractionalDocument="false" sealed="false"/>
<fileName>33952-38-4-V2.jpeg</fileName>
<fileMimetype>image/jpeg</fileMimetype>
<rawContent>
H4sIAAAAAAAAAO2XZ1AU65qAe5iBIQwgOCMZRkHJCIgEySBhyEEyIyDgMBKHLEFQBJEoIHBEQFQE
JUjOSo4iOQ+Ss2QkSZhZvLXn7j11726d3draH1vn7Xp+dH1fd/XzvV+//TZxlDgNnNNQRakCIBAA
gM4OgEgA5JQNVBRv6RrcQGLsBO+52WOQ3iJCwkgeLw+sCwaJ0lBDauipqCG9xUV5BZB29ndtvJw8
kTgvGyes531K4jigDJCTkUHJSMmhUCgFBTklDE4No6KCMdGfp4WzMXOwszGzsiK5hLiRlwQ4WVl5
...
</rawContent>
<MD5>0d80850b0c4085500f80e1430b90c70910d4110cc0d7</MD5>
</AttachmentDocument>
(The full version here) And I can't read image out of it.
My attempt:
from PIL import Image
import StringIO
import base64
# I've eleminated all newlines and tabs to produce data string
data="H4sIAAAAAAAAAO2XZ1AU65qAe5..."
im = Image.open(StringIO.StringIO(base64.b64decode(data)))
But I'm getting an error:
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1980, in open
raise IOError("cannot identify image file")
Upvotes: 4
Views: 3753
Reputation: 3869
If you'd check what you're getting in the output of base64 decode, then you would notice that it's a gzip file. Extract the compressed file and you'll get the desired JPEG.
Comment stored in the image:
CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), default quality
Upvotes: 3