from PIL import Image
"""
Mean thresholding algorithm for image processing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thresholding_(image_processing)
"""
def mean_threshold(image: Image) -> Image:
"""
image: is a grayscale PIL image object
"""
height, width = image.size
mean = 0
pixels = image.load()
for i in range(width):
for j in range(height):
pixel = pixels[j, i]
mean += pixel
mean //= width * height
for j in range(width):
for i in range(height):
pixels[i, j] = 255 if pixels[i, j] > mean else 0
return image
if __name__ == "__main__":
image = mean_threshold(Image.open("path_to_image").convert("L"))
image.save("output_image_path")