Requirements

• CPython >=2.7 or >=3.5 or PyPy

• cffi >= 1.0

• libturbojpeg with headers

Installation

$ pip install jpegtran-cffi

Usage

from jpegtran import JPEGImage

img = JPEGImage('image.jpg')

# JPEGImage can also be initialized from a bytestring
blob = requests.get("http://example.com/image.jpg").content
from_blob = JPEGImage(blob=blob)

# Reading various image parameters
print img.width, img.height  # "640 480"
print img.exif_orientation  # "1" (= "normal")

# If present, the JFIF thumbnail can be obtained as a bytestring
thumb = img.exif_thumbnail

# Transforming the image
img.downscale(320, 240).save('scaled.jpg')
img.rotate(90).save('rotated.jpg')
img.crop(0, 0, 100, 100).save('cropped.jpg')

# Transformations can be chained
data = (img.downscale(320, 240)
            .rotate(90)
            .flip('horizontal')
            .as_blob())

# jpegtran can transform the image automatically according to the EXIF
# orientation tag
photo = JPEGImage(blob=requests.get("http://example.com/photo.jpg").content)
print photo.exif_orientation  # "6" (= 270°)
print photo.width, photo.height # "4320 3240"
corrected = photo.exif_autotransform()
print corrected.exif_orientation  # "1" (= "normal")
print corrected.width, corrected.height  # "3240 4320"

For more details, refer to the API Reference.

Benchmarks

All operations were done on a 3.4GHz i7-3770 with 16GiB of RAM and a 7200rpm HDD with the following 2560x1920 8bit RGB JPEG:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Mandel_zoom_05_tail_part.jpg

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Johannes Baiter <johannes.baiter@gmail.com>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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