How to view an image captured using Pillow in python?

Question

I'm using Pillow to capture an image on my screen. I would then be able to open up the captured image and view it. However, I encountered a problem where I cannot open the image for a reason unbeknownst to me.

This is my code:

import PIL.ImageGrab
from PIL import Image


def lswth():
    crnts2 = PIL.ImageGrab.grab(bbox=(934, 813, 966, 830))
    im = Image.open(crnts2)
    im.show()


lswth()

The following code does not produce any images and returns me: AttributeError: 'PixelAccess' object has no attribute 'read'

I tried viewing other articles about similar problems How do i read image using PILLOW image?, https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-pil-image-open-method/#, ect. but the problem consisted of an image that was already saved on the computer rather than being taken by PILLOW. I tinkered around the code using other commands like Image.open, Image.save, .load(), ect. but they also returned an error or did not show the image. From what I can gather, the command only works on images already saved on the computer, not images taken by PILLOW. I feel like I have to save the image directly onto the computer but I haven't found a way to do that as Image.save does not work.

How would I view a file saved by pillow?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 10 '23 at 19:22

I think your problem is that you are trying load an image from your pc. Instead simply do the following:

import PIL.ImageGrab
from PIL import Image

def lswth():
    crnts2 = PIL.ImageGrab.grab(bbox=None)
    crnts2.show()

lswth()

I removed the dimensions you had specified in your own coded but you can place whatever specs you want in there to customise it.

How to view an image captured using Pillow in python?

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