Is it possible to create encoded base64 URL from Image object?

Question

I am looking to create base64 inline encoded data of images for display in a table using canvases. Python generates and creates the web page dynamically. As it stands python

Answer 1

I use PNG when I save to the buffer. With JPEG the numpy arrays are a bit different.

import base64
import io

import numpy as np
from PIL import Image

image_path = 'dog.jpg'

img2 = np.array(Image.open(image_path))

# Numpy -> b64
buffered = io.BytesIO()
Image.fromarray(img2).save(buffered, format="PNG")
b64image = base64.b64encode(buffered.getvalue())

# b64 -> Numpy
img = np.array(Image.open(io.BytesIO(base64.b64decode(b64image))))

print(img.shape)
np.testing.assert_almost_equal(img, img2)

Note that it will be slower.