Exctract GIF comment from image

Miki miki.tebeka at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 13:18:04 EDT 2008


Hello Wingi,

> simple question: The PIL does not support reading the optional
> description in GIF Images.
>
> http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/format-gif.htm
>
> After some reasearch I could not find a python solution for this, any
> suggestions?
Use ImageMagick (www.imagemagick.org), "identify -verbose <image>"
should have the comments somewhere
in the output.
There also a python binding to ImageMagick but I have no experience
with it.

HTH,
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Miki <miki.tebeka at gmail.com>
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