destroy.jpeg

Use JPEG to corrupt an image beyond recognition. Works through opening and saving an image with different quality values.

Requires

• Python
• Pillow

destroyJPEG

destroyJPEG(minCompression, maxCompression, pathToFile, timesToIterate)

• minCompression - The lower quality value. The least possible value is 1.
• maxCompression - The higher quality value. The greatest possible value is 95.
• pathToFile - Path to image file.
• timesToIterate - Can be a single integer, or a list of integers. Saves image this many times (the more times, the least recognizable). If it is a list of integers, it will save a duplicate at each time in the list.

Example

destroyJPEG(1, 95, 'image.png', 20)

Saves an image called image.d.jpg.

destroyJPEG(1, 95, 'image.png', [20, 40, 60])

Saves images image.d.jpg, image.d20.png, image.d40.png, and image.d60.png (image.d.jpg and image.d60.png are graphically equivalent).

Command line

python destroyjpeg.py 1 95 image.png 20

python destroyjpeg.py 1 95 image.png 20 40 60