How to show PIL Image in ipython notebook

Question

This is my code

from PIL import Image
pil_im = Image.open(\'data/empire.jpg\')

I would like to do some image manipulation on it, and then s

Answer 1

much simpler in jupyter using pillow.

from PIL import Image
image0=Image.open('image.png')
image0

Answer 2

I found that this is working

# source: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/deeplook/5162445
from io import BytesIO

from IPython import display
from PIL import Image


def display_pil_image(im):
   """Displayhook function for PIL Images, rendered as PNG."""

   b = BytesIO()
   im.save(b, format='png')
   data = b.getvalue()

   ip_img = display.Image(data=data, format='png', embed=True)
   return ip_img._repr_png_()


# register display func with PNG formatter:
png_formatter = get_ipython().display_formatter.formatters['image/png']
dpi = png_formatter.for_type(Image.Image, display_pil_image)

After this I can just do:

pil_im

But this must be last line in cell, with no print after it

Answer 3

I suggest following installation by no image show img.show() (from PIL import Image)

$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Answer 4

If you are using the pylab extension, you could convert the image to a numpy array and use matplotlib's imshow.

%pylab # only if not started with the --pylab option
imshow(array(pil_im))

EDIT: As mentioned in the comments, the pylab module is deprecated, so use the matplotlib magic instead and import the function explicitly:

%matplotlib
from matplotlib.pyplot import imshow 
imshow(array(pil_im))

Answer 5

Based on other answers and my tries, best experience would be first installing, pillow and scipy, then using the following starting code on your jupyter notebook:

%matplotlib inline
from matplotlib.pyplot import imshow
from scipy.misc import imread

imshow(imread('image.jpg', 1))

Answer 6

In order to simply visualize the image in a notebook you can use display()

%matplotlib inline
from PIL import Image

im = Image.open(im_path)
display(im)