[Image-SIG] Image file to numeric representation

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ken N. Seergobin wrote:
> I have what is probably a very simple question...
> 
> Once an image has been opened, how does one go about converting
> the internal format to a numeric representation that can
> be analyzed?  As an example, I would like to assess the pairwise
> correlation of various images.  

here's one way to do it:

    im = Image.open("data.pgm")
    data = list(im.getdata())

data is now a "flattened" list containing
the pixels for the first row, followed by
the second row, etc.

also see the various posts on PIL/NumPy
integration.

Cheers /F
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