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pillow

brew install pillow v12.2.0 HPND

Python library for opening, manipulating, and saving images across many formats.

Why you might care

Pillow is the standard image-processing library in Python, supporting PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WebP, AVIF, and more. It handles resizing, cropping, filtering, and format conversion in pure Python or with compiled backends (libjpeg, libpng, etc.). Use it in data pipelines, web frameworks, or image batch jobs where PIL is the expected interface.

Categories

library image-tool python

Alternatives

imagemagick GraphicsMagick OpenCV scikit-image

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Runtime dependencies

freetype jpeg-turbo libavif libimagequant libraqm libtiff libxcb little-cms2 openjpeg webp

Build dependencies

cmake ninja pkgconf pybind11 python@3.13 python@3.14

Links

https://python-pillow.github.io/
Brew formula source: Formula/p/pillow.rb

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