[Image-SIG] PIL-based reference applications?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ralf Juengling wrote:

> Creating thumbnails for some 10000 images

per day or hour?

> converting to a common format, rendering text onto images, creating
> blobs for database storage, extracting features (color/texture/shape).
>=20
> Are you aware of any larger image processing project, that is built
> on PIL?

PIL is widely used as a platform for large 24/7 systems, including
meteorology/remote sensing, document imaging/databases, news-
paper production, and web services.

fwiw, outside the test scripts, I've never used it to generate thumb-
nails myself...

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