Image merging within python - based tool (maybe OT)

[Ben C]

Have you checked out the Python Imaging Library, PIL? ...try
www.pythonware.com ... it is very good and I am almost 100% certain you will
be able to do this using it ... the other option may be to use the Python
bindings to The Gimp toolkit ...

cheers

Ben C

"R. Charles Henry" <trapforcannedmeatproduct at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8ed56b42.0211092045.1e833602 at posting.google.com...
> I'd like to ask the group's advice.
>
> My situation: I have two separate document images, both of the same
> format .png, .bmp, .jpg, or .tif. They are otherwise identical in size
> and file characteristics, having been produced from a larger-than-A4
> document using an A4 flatbed scanner. Each image contains a region of
> 'overlap' with the other.
>
> I need to find an open-source 'mosaicking' or 'blending' codebase,
> which will be capable of accepting both input images, and merging them
> to reproduce an image of the original larger-than-A4 document.
>
> This code is to be used within a tool I am creating using python, &
> I'd like to avoid the neccessity of having to manually set reference
> points on the input images. The code itself that I'm searching for
> doesn't need to be python, just accessible from it.
>
> Since the input images are 'flat', I don't require such features as
> projection adjustment etc, I just need some form of basic automatic
> 'merging'.
>
> Would anyone have any suggestions? Any pointers at all would be very
> gratefully received.
>
> TIA