Decoding base64 from POST to use in PIL

Question

I\'m making a simple API in Flask that accepts an image encoded in base64, then decodes it for further processing using Pillow.

I\'ve looked at some examples (1, 2,

Answer 1

I'm using the ways mentioned above. But I'm getting this error at Image.open: cannot identify image file <_io.BytesIO object at 0x11c267590>.

This is my code:

image_data = re.sub('^data:image/.+;base64,', '', testBase64)
data = Image.open(io.BytesIO(base64.b64decode(image_data)))

Any ideas/ suggestions?