""" Experimental converter that transforms standard png, jpg and bmp files to useable bmp files which can be used by the Calendar. # Currently in ALPHA mode. Please use with caution and keep backups # Version 1.0 (initial) # Copyright by Ace-Laboratory """ ## What this script does: # grab images from one folder, perform some operations and paste them in an output folder. # The operations consists of removing the alpha channel, reducing the colours to (currently) just two, # Inverting the colours (as the display inverts them again) and rotating the picture by 90 deg clockwise ## Please only use png files for now as that has been tested and confirmed to work so far. import glob, os, errno from PIL import Image import PIL.ImageOps #--------------only change the following two lines-----------------# input_folder = '/home/pi/input/' output_folder = '/home/pi/output/' #-----------------no need to change anything below----------------# os.chdir(input_folder) pngs = [] for files in glob.glob("*.png"): pngs.append(os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(files))[0]) bmps = [] for files in glob.glob("*.bmp"): bmps.append(files) jpegs= [] for files in glob.glob("*.jpg"): print(os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(files))[0]) jpegs.append(os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(files))[0]) print('converting...') thresh = 126 # any value below 127 works. fn = lambda x : 255 if x > thresh else 0 # PNG to BMP conversion for files in pngs: #part1: first from png to bmp png=Image.open(input_folder+files+".png") png.load() background = Image.new("RGB", png.size, (255, 255, 255)) background.paste(png, mask=png.split()[3]) background.convert('L').point(fn, mode='1').save((output_folder+files+'.bmp'), 'BMP', quality=90) png_bmp = [] #part2: and then from bmp to bmp os.chdir(output_folder) for files in glob.glob("*.bmp"): png_bmp.append(files) for files in png_bmp: (PIL.ImageOps.invert((Image.open(output_folder+files).rotate(-90, expand=True)).convert('L'))).save(output_folder+files) # BMP to BMP conversion for files in bmps: (PIL.ImageOps.invert((Image.open(input_folder+files).rotate(-90, expand=True)).convert('L'))).save(output_folder+files) # JPG to BMP (do not use) for files in jpegs: (Image.open(input_folder+files+".jpg").convert('L').save(output_folder+files+".bmp")) print('All done')