[Image-SIG] PIL Convert Alpha-transparent image to non-transparent?

Yury V. Zaytsev yury at shurup.com
Tue Jul 6 10:12:38 CEST 2010


On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 15:46 -0400, Chander Ganesan wrote:

> I need to convert the image to a non-transparent one (so I can pass it
> into tesseract for OCR) but I cannot seem to do so without loosing
> quality of the text in the image.  Is there a standard way to do this?
> I've tried the following (all to no avail):

Not really related to PIL, but you might wish to use Cuneiform, whose
ImageMagick front-end can load any type of images, supported by
ImageMagick.
 
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Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev



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