from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont def add_num(): im = Image.open('in.jpg') xsize, ysize = im.size draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im) font = ImageFont.truetype("arial.ttf", xsize // 3) draw.text((ysize // 5 * 4, 0), '3', (250,128,114), font) im.save('out.jpg') add_num()