[Tutor] [tutor] PIL versus matlab

[Eike Welk]

On Sunday 17 February 2008 08:26, Varsha Purohit wrote:
> Hello All,
>        I wanted to know what are the advantages and disadvantages
> of using pIL instead of matlab software to deal to image
> processing.

PIL is for simple tasks like resizing images. It can read and write 
very many image formats.

Matlab sees an image as an array and lets you perform arbitrary 
mathematical operations on the image. I suppose it also includes the 
most common image analysis operations as a library.

If you want someting comparable to Matlab, but in Python, use Ndimage 
from Scipy:
http://www.scipy.org/SciPyPackages/Ndimage