Pillow Python

1. What is Pillow in Python used for?
2. Is Pillow faster than OpenCV?
3. Is PIL and Pillow the same?
4. Are Python pillows faster?

What is Pillow in Python used for?

The Pillow library contains all the basic image processing functionality. You can do image resizing, rotation and transformation. Pillow module allows you to pull some statistics data out of image using histogram method, which later can be used for statistical analysis and automatic contrast enhancement.

Is Pillow faster than OpenCV?

OpenCV is written in C and C++ whereas PIL is written using Python and C, hence just from this information, OpenCV seems faster. While dealing with 1000s of images for data extraction, the processing speed 🚀 matters.

Is PIL and Pillow the same?

What is PIL/Pillow? PIL (Python Imaging Library) adds many image processing features to Python. Pillow is a fork of PIL that adds some user-friendly features.

Are Python pillows faster?

First, there was PIL (Python Image Library). And then its development was abandoned. Then, Pillow forked PIL as a drop-in replacement and according to its benchmarks it is significantly faster than ImageMagick , OpenCV , IPP and other fast image processing libraries (on identical hardware/platform).