imdirect

The orientation of the photographed object or scene with respect to the digital camera is encoded in the resulting image's Exif data (given that it is saved as a JPEG).

When working with such digital camera images, this orientation might lead to problems handling the image and is very often desired to be counteracted. This module is a small extension to Pillow, adding an autorotate method that can be used for addressing this issue.

It will eventually feature a PIL.Image.Image subclass that autorotates internally and updates and ports Exif data when saving the image to new file.

Installation

pip install git+https://www.github.com/hbldh/imdirect

Usage

In [1]: import imdirect

In [2]: from PIL import Pillow

In [3]: img = Image.open('2016-08-28 15.11.44.jpg')

In [4]: imdirect.determine_orientation(img)
Out[4]: 6

In [5]: img
Out[5]: <PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile image mode=RGB size=4032x3024 at 0x7F3DFD950990>

In [6]: imdirect.autorotate(i)
Out[6]: <PIL.Image.Image image mode=RGB size=4032x3024 at 0x7F3DFD89CED0>

Tests

TBD.