PIL.Image.open is rotating jpeg images

[nicolasch96]

Hello,
I am trying to load images with Image.open. However, the images are autorotated if they were jpg images.

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[radarhere]

I would imagine that the images you are dealing with have an EXIF orientation tag. This means that the image data is saved in one position, and then the image instructs the viewer to rotate it another way.

Pillow does not automatically apply this transformation to the data. However, it has a method to do so - https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/ImageOps.html#PIL.ImageOps.exif_transpose

Here is an example using it. You can try this and check if it resolves your problem.

from PIL import Image, ImageOps
im = Image.open("file.jpg")
im = ImageOps.exif_transpose(im)

However, this is all a guess. To be sure, please provide an image, and ideally, the code that you are running over it.

[nicolasch96]

I would imagine that the images you are dealing with have an EXIF orientation tag. This means that the image data is save in one position, and then the image instructs the viewer to rotate it another way.

Pillow does not automatically apply this transformation to the data. However, it has a method to do so - https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/ImageOps.html#PIL.ImageOps.exif_transpose

Here is an example using it. You can try this and check if it resolves your problem.

from PIL import Image, ImageOps
im = Image.open("file.jpg")
im = ImageOps.exif_transpose(im)

However, this is all a guess. To be sure, please provide an image, and ideally, the code that you are running over it.

Hello, yes it is true. Thank you very much.

[Divjyot]

Pillow 8.0.0 is automatically rotating images upon .open based on EXIF Orientation tag. Is there a way to stop that? Automatic rotation is NOT expected from Pillow.

I have an image with following EXIF:
{'ExifVersion': b'0221',
'ComponentsConfiguration': b'\x01\x02\x03\x00',
'FlashPixVersion': b'0100',
'ColorSpace': 1,
'ExifImageWidth': 4032,
'ExifImageHeight': 3024,
'SceneCaptureType': 0,
'ResolutionUnit': 2,
'ExifOffset': 102,
'Orientation': 3,
'YCbCrPositioning': 1,
'XResolution': 72.0,
'YResolution': 72.0}
When, I perform Image.open(file_bytes) , result is automatically rotated image.
I wanted to stop that behaviour and return a NON-Rotated image i.e. same as original.

[radarhere]

@Divjyot would you be able to open a new issue with a copy of the image attached?

[kxrob]

Doing the exif_transpose() for a .jpg I get this error:

  File "C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageOps.py", line 602, in exif_transpose
    transposed_image.info["exif"] = transposed_exif.tobytes()
  File "C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 3628, in tobytes
    return b"Exif\x00\x00" + head + ifd.tobytes(offset)
  File "C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\PIL\TiffImagePlugin.py", line 878, in tobytes
    data = ifd.tobytes(offset)
  File "C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\PIL\TiffImagePlugin.py", line 887, in tobytes
    "<table: %d bytes>" % len(data) if len(data) >= 16 else str(values)
TypeError: object of type 'IFDRational' has no len()

At post-mortem:

>>> PIL.__version__
'9.3.0'
>>> data
2.2
>>> type(data)
<class 'PIL.TiffImagePlugin.IFDRational'>
>>> len(data)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: object of type 'IFDRational' has no len()

# stack level with image:
>>> im.getexif()[274]  # Orientation
6
>>> im.getexif()[282]  # XResolution
72.0
>>> im.getexif()[283]  # YResolution
72.0
>>> type(_)
<class 'PIL.TiffImagePlugin.IFDRational'>

Is this a(nother) bug, or what to do?

[radarhere]

The above comment was continued as #6882