python-pillow/Pillow

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13777 stars · 2494 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Pillow is the actively maintained fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL), providing image opening, editing, and saving across many file formats with a simple Python API. It is a foundational dependency used by millions of Python projects and packages for image processing tasks.

Use cases

• resize and crop images in python
• convert images between png jpeg webp formats
• generate thumbnails for uploaded images
• draw text and shapes on images
• read image metadata and exif data
• process images in a django web app

When to choose

• you need to open, manipulate, or save images in Python
• you want a mature, widely supported imaging library with broad format support
• you need thumbnails, resizing, or format conversion in web backends

When to avoid

• you need GPU-accelerated or deep-learning-based image processing
• you are working outside Python
• you need advanced computer vision like object detection

Facets

library · maturity stable

image-processing image-processing files web-development python cross-platform windows pil imaging image-formats thumbnails python-library linux macos

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