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White background for transparent background using python pil

How can I convert all white background and white elements of a png or jpg image to a transparent backgroun using PIL?

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Using numpy, the following makes white areas transparent. You can change thresholdand distto control the definition of "white-ish".

import Image
import numpy as np

threshold=100
dist=5
img=Image.open(FNAME).convert('RGBA')
# np.asarray(img) is read only. Wrap it in np.array to make it modifiable.
arr=np.array(np.asarray(img))
r,g,b,a=np.rollaxis(arr,axis=-1)    
mask=((r>threshold)
      & (g>threshold)
      & (b>threshold)
      & (np.abs(r-g)<dist)
      & (np.abs(r-b)<dist)
      & (np.abs(g-b)<dist)
      )
arr[mask,3]=0
img=Image.fromarray(arr,mode='RGBA')
img.save('/tmp/out.png')

The code is easy to modify, so only the RGB value (255,255,255) becomes transparent - if that's what you really want. Just change maskto:

mask=((r==255)&(g==255)&(b==255)).T
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