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Python for Secret Agents
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Python for Secret Agents

by Steven F. Lott
August 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
216 pages
5h 13m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 3. Encoding Secret Messages with Steganography

We're going to acquire intelligence data from a variety of sources. In the previous chapter, we searched the WWW. We might use our own cameras or recording devices. We'll look at image processing and encoding in this chapter.

To work with images in Python, we'll need to install Pillow. This library gives us software tools to process image files. Pillow is a fork of the older PIL project; Pillow is a bit nicer to use than PIL.

Along the way, we'll visit some additional Python programming techniques, including:

  • We'll review how Python works with OS files and also look at some common physical formats, including ZIP files, JSON, and CSV.
  • We'll introduce JPEG files and learn to process them with Pillow. ...
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