Crop an image in the centre using PIL

Question

How can I crop an image in the center? Because I know that the box is a 4-tuple defining the left, upper, right, and lower pixel coordinate but I don\'t know how to get these co

Answer 1

I feel like the simplest solution that is most suitable for most applications is still missing. The accepted answer has an issue with uneven pixels and especially for ML algorithms, the pixel count of the cropped image is paramount.

In the following example, I would like to crop an image to 224/100, from the center. I do not care if the pixels are shifted to the left or right by 0.5, as long as the output picture will always be of the defined dimensions. It avoids the reliance on math.*.

from PIL import Image
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt


im = Image.open("test.jpg")
left = int(im.size[0]/2-224/2)
upper = int(im.size[1]/2-100/2)
right = left +224
lower = upper + 100

im_cropped = im.crop((left, upper,right,lower))
print(im_cropped.size)
plt.imshow(np.asarray(im_cropped))

The output is before cropping (not shown in code):

after:

The touples show the dimensions.