The pypes-imaging project provides a basic set of components for performing image processing within pypes. The functionality itself is achieved using the Python Imaging Library (PIL). http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm The basic operations provided by this package are: - Image Cropping - Image Flipping - Image Mirroring - Image Gray Scaling - Generating Thumbnails The package also provides an Image Adapter and an Image Publisher for getting image data in/out of the system. The adapter converts incoming images to a format that pypes can utilize and the publisher provides simple writing of images to the local file system. Supported output formats include: - PNG - JPEG - GIF - BMP - TIFF - EPS To build the components, ensure you have PIL installed and then simply run the setup.py script provided by each component: $ python setup.py bdist_egg This will create an egg file under dist/ in your working directory. This egg can then be added to pypes by copying/moving it to the $PYPES/plugins where $PYPES is the parent folder containing the pypes application. If you haven't installed pypes, you can download it here: http://www.pypes.org