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Code snippets on using PIL for overlaying text over image
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gistfile1.py
from PIL import ImageFont
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageDraw
from StringIO import StringIO
font = ImageFont.load_default()
input = StringIO(self.request.get("img"))
img = Image.open(input)
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
draw.text((0, 0),self.request.get('content'),(255,255,0),font=font)
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
output = StringIO()
img.save(output, format="JPEG")
greeting.avatar = db.Blob(output.getvalue())
output.close()
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