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Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 11:17:05 +1000
Subject: Re: Clip Raster Image Pair by Overlapping Area using Python
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On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:05 AM,  <mikejohnryan08@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a set of aerial images which I am trying to clip by their overlapping areas, for use in a more involved program I am writing with PIL.
>
> What would be the best method with Python to extract the overlapping area from a pair of images?  I know there are libraries out there that could do this, but I couldn't find any so far.
>

The problem is that they won't absolutely perfectly match, so you need
some sort of similarity check. That's hard - very hard. I suggest you
find a stand-alone program that will do that part of the job; it'll be
easier than finding a Python library for it.

ChrisA