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I get values from the Oracle blob, below.
It's a JPEG file that somebody stored as a signed char, rather than unsigned.
How can I convert it into a image?
[-1,-40,-1,-32,0,16,74,70,73,70,0,1,1,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,-1,-37,0,67,0,1,...]
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Answer 1

It depends whether you mean you want to save the data to disk as a JPEG or further process it in memory as an image.
As it is, the image has been (incorrectly) stored as a signed char instead of as an unsigned char - I can tell that because there are negative values in there. I can tell it is a JPEG because JPEGs have the string JFIF near the start and J=74, F=70 and I=73 in ASCII - you will see those values near the start.
So, first I did a list comprehension to correct the values like this:
# Data from pastebin
im = [-1,-40,-1,-32,0,16,74,70,73,70,0...]
# Correct negative values to be "256+current"
corrected = [256+x if x<0 else x for x in im]
Then, assuming you want to write the image to disk, it is already JPEG-encoded so we just need to convert the list to bytes and write those to disk
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# Data from pastebin
im = [-1,-40,-1,-32,0,16,74,70,73,70,0 ...]
# Correct negative values to be "256+current"
corrected = [256+x if x<0 else x for x in im]
# Convert corrected data to bytes and save to disk as "result.jpg"
with open('result.jpg', 'wb') as f:
f.write(bytes(corrected))
If, on the other hand, you want to make a PIL Image and process it, you can wrap the bytes in a BytesIO and ask PIL to open that:
from PIL import Image
from io import BytesIO
# Data from pastebin
im = [-1,-40,-1,-32,0,16,74,70,73,70,0 ...]
# Correct negative values to be "256+current"
corrected = [256+x if x<0 else x for x in im]
# Convert the corrected list to "bytes", wrap in BytesIO and ask PIL to open as PIL Image
pImage = Image.open(BytesIO(bytes(corrected)))
# Now we can display it
pImage.show()
# Or save it
pImage.save('result.jpg')
Note that if you prefer to use OpenCV rather than PIL, you would use cv2.imdecode() in place of PIL Image.open().
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