.. _misc-image_thumbnail: misc example code: image_thumbnail.py ===================================== [`source code `_] :: """ You can use matplotlib to generate thumbnails from existing images. matplotlib natively supports PNG files on the input side, and other image types transparently if your have PIL installed """ from __future__ import print_function # build thumbnails of all images in a directory import sys, os, glob import matplotlib.image as image if len(sys.argv)!=2: print('Usage: python %s IMAGEDIR'%__file__) raise SystemExit indir = sys.argv[1] if not os.path.isdir(indir): print('Could not find input directory "%s"'%indir) raise SystemExit outdir = 'thumbs' if not os.path.exists(outdir): os.makedirs(outdir) for fname in glob.glob(os.path.join(indir, '*.png')): basedir, basename = os.path.split(fname) outfile = os.path.join(outdir, basename) fig = image.thumbnail(fname, outfile, scale=0.15) print('saved thumbnail of %s to %s'%(fname, outfile)) Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)