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Yaroslav Bulatov
Yaroslav Bulatov

Reputation: 57973

IOError: cannot identify image file

Can anyone tell why PIL can't open this PNG file?

https://b75094855c6274df1cf8559f089f485661ae1156.googledrive.com/host/0B56ak7W-HmqAX005c3g5eTlBakE/8.png

I get IOError: cannot identify image file, and by looking at the code, it seems it tries PIL.PngImagePlugin.PngImageFile and corresponding "accept" function, and it returns False

I'm using version 1.1.6

Upvotes: 3

Views: 20357

Answers (2)

user3080885
user3080885

Reputation: 63

try to import cv2 

>>> from PIL import Image
>>> import cv2
>>> im = cv2.imread("8.png")
>>> im = cv2.imwrite("8.png")

i hope its working...

Upvotes: 1

Hugo
Hugo

Reputation: 29394

I don't know what the problem is with PIL 1.1.6 but I just tested it with the latest Pillow 2.4.0 and this worked:

>>> from PIL import Image
>>> im = Image.open("8.png")
>>> im.show()

PIL in unmaintained and Pillow is an actively maintained and developed fork. To use Pillow, first uninstall PIL, then install Pillow.

Further installation instructions here: http://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html

Upvotes: 7

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