Getting a Black and White UIImage (Not Grayscale)

Question

I need to get a pure black and white UIImage from another UIImage (not grayscale). Anyone can help me?

Thanks for reading.

EDITED:

Here is the proposed solution. Thanks to all. Almost I know that is not the better way to do it, it works fine.

// Gets an pure black and white image from an original image.
- (UIImage *)pureBlackAndWhiteImage:(UIImage *)image {

    unsigned char *dataBitmap = [self bitmapFromImage:image];

    for (int i = 0; i < image.size.width * image.size.height * 4; i += 4) {

        if ((dataBitmap[i + 1] + dataBitmap[i + 2] + dataBitmap[i + 3]) < (255 * 3 / 2)) {
            dataBitmap[i + 1] = 0;
            dataBitmap[i + 2] = 0;
            dataBitmap[i + 3] = 0;
        } else {
            dataBitmap[i + 1] = 255;
            dataBitmap[i + 2] = 255;
            dataBitmap[i + 3] = 255;
        }
    }

    image = [self imageWithBits:dataBitmap withSize:image.size];

    return image;
}

EDITED 1:

In response to comments, Here are methods bitmapFromImage and imageWithBits.

// Retrieves the bits from the context once the image has been drawn.
- (unsigned char *)bitmapFromImage:(UIImage *)image {

    // Creates a bitmap from the given image.
    CGContextRef contex = CreateARGBBitmapContext(image.size);
    if (contex == NULL) {
        return NULL;
    }

    CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, image.size.width, image.size.height);
    CGContextDrawImage(contex, rect, image.CGImage);
    unsigned char *data = CGBitmapContextGetData(contex);
    CGContextRelease(contex);

    return data;
}

// Fills an image with bits.
- (UIImage *)imageWithBits:(unsigned char *)bits withSize:(CGSize)size {

    // Creates a color space
    CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
    if (colorSpace == NULL) {

        fprintf(stderr, "Error allocating color space\n");
        free(bits);
        return nil;
    }

    CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate (bits, size.width, size.height, 8, size.width * 4, colorSpace, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst);
    if (context == NULL) {

        fprintf (stderr, "Error. Context not created\n");
        free (bits);
        CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace );
        return nil;
    }

    CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace );
    CGImageRef ref = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(context);
    free(CGBitmapContextGetData(context));
    CGContextRelease(context);

    UIImage *img = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:ref];
    CFRelease(ref);
    return img;
}

Answer 1

If what you're looking for is to threshold the image -- everything brighter than a certain value turns white, everything darker turns black, and you pick the value -- then a library like GPU Image will work for you.