Load an html5 canvas into a PIL Image with Django

Question

I\'m trying to get the contents of an html5 canvas and pass it to my django server, where it will then be manipulated with PIL and saved as a PNG. Here\'s what I have so far

Answer 1

import re

datauri = 'data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4//8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=='

imgstr = re.search(r'base64,(.*)', datauri).group(1)

output = open('output.png', 'wb')

output.write(imgstr.decode('base64'))

output.close()

or if you need to load it into PIL :

import cStringIO

tempimg = cStringIO.StringIO(imgstr.decode('base64'))

im = Image.open(tempimg)