To achieve our goal, we will need to carry out various image processing operations; for example, we will need to create an image from scratch, draw shapes onto an image, plot an image, open an image file, save an image to a file, compare two images, and possibly resize an image. In the following sections, we will explore some of the ways these operations can be performed when using Python.
Image processing in Python
Python image processing libraries
Out of the wealth of image processing libraries available for Python programmers, we chose to use three of the most prominent ones. These libraries will be briefly discussed in the following subsections.
