Crop a PNG image to its minimum size

Question

How to cut off the blank border area of a PNG image and shrink it to its minimum size using Python?

Answer 1

Here is ready-to-use solution:

import numpy as np
from PIL import Image

def bbox(im):
    a = np.array(im)[:,:,:3]  # keep RGB only
    m = np.any(a != [255, 255, 255], axis=2)
    coords = np.argwhere(m)
    y0, x0, y1, x1 = *np.min(coords, axis=0), *np.max(coords, axis=0)
    return (x0, y0, x1+1, y1+1)

im = Image.open('test.png')
print(bbox(im))  # (33, 12, 223, 80)
im2 = im.crop(bbox(im))
im2.save('test_cropped.png')

Example input (download link if you want to try):

Output: