""" =============== Image Thumbnail =============== You can use Matplotlib to generate thumbnails from existing images. Matplotlib relies on Pillow_ for reading images, and thus supports all formats supported by Pillow. .. _Pillow: https://python-pillow.org/ """ from argparse import ArgumentParser from pathlib import Path import sys import matplotlib.image as image parser = ArgumentParser( description="Build thumbnails of all images in a directory.") parser.add_argument("imagedir", type=Path) args = parser.parse_args() if not args.imagedir.isdir(): sys.exit(f"Could not find input directory {args.imagedir}") outdir = Path("thumbs") outdir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) for path in args.imagedir.glob("*.png"): outpath = outdir / path.name fig = image.thumbnail(path, outpath, scale=0.15) print(f"saved thumbnail of {path} to {outpath}")