How to find the mode and type of an image in PIL (Pillow)

In this article, you’ll see how to find the mode and type of an image in the PIL module. You just have to change the name and location of the image.

# Import the PIL library
from PIL import Image

# Read the image from location
image = Image.open("C:\\AiHints\\cats.jpg")

# Print the mode of an image
print(image.mode)

# Print the type of an image
print(type(image))

Output:

RGB
<class 'PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile'>

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