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# scipy.misc.fromimage

`scipy.misc.``fromimage`(im, flatten=0)

  Return a copy of a PIL image as a numpy array.

  Parameters : | im : PIL image Input image. flatten : bool If true, convert the output to grey-scale.
  Returns : | img_array : ndarray The different colour bands/channels are stored in the third dimension, such that a grey-image is MxN, an RGB-image MxNx3 and an RGBA-image MxNx4.

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