loading_utils.py

import os
from typing import Union

import PIL.Image
import PIL.ImageOps
import requests


def load_image(image: Union[str, PIL.Image.Image]) -> PIL.Image.Image:
    """
    Loads `image` to a PIL Image.

    Args:
        image (`str` or `PIL.Image.Image`):
            The image to convert to the PIL Image format.
    Returns:
        `PIL.Image.Image`:
            A PIL Image.
    """
    if isinstance(image, str):
        if image.startswith("http://") or image.startswith("https://"):
            image = PIL.Image.open(requests.get(image, stream=True).raw)
        elif os.path.isfile(image):
            image = PIL.Image.open(image)
        else:
            raise ValueError(
                f"Incorrect path or url, URLs must start with `http://` or `https://`, and {image} is not a valid path"
            )
    elif isinstance(image, PIL.Image.Image):
        image = image
    else:
        raise ValueError(
            "Incorrect format used for image. Should be an url linking to an image, a local path, or a PIL image."
        )
    image = PIL.ImageOps.exif_transpose(image)
    image = image.convert("RGB")
    return image