how to convert a PIL image to string and then convert it back to PIL image? The convsersion is to be done without saving it to a new file

Question

I am currently doing this for bytestring conversion but I need to convert to string.

img=Image.fromarray(img)
output = io.BytesIO()
img.save(output, format="png")
image_as_string = output.getvalue()
img=Image.open(io.BytesIO(image_as_string))
img.save('strimg.png')

Answer 1

Here is my solution with base64.

import base64

img = Image.open("test.png")
output = io.BytesIO()
img.save(output, format="png")
image_as_string = base64.b64encode(output.getvalue())

#encrypting/decrypting

img=Image.open(io.BytesIO(base64.b64decode(image_as_string)))
img.save('string.png')