working with images (PIL ?)

[Scott David Daniels]

Poppy wrote:
> I need to write a program to examine images (JPG) and determine how much 
> area is whitespace. We need to throw a returned image out if too much of it 
> is whitespace from the dataset we're working with. I've been examining the 
> Python Image Library and can not determine if it offers the needed 
> functionality. Does anyone have suggestions of other image libraries I 
> should be looking at it, or if PIL can do what I need? 
> 
> 
If PIL's "histogram" method doesn't give you a clue how you might do
this, hire someone to do it.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org