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TL;DR;
Is there a way to compress an image (mostly jpeg, png and gif) directly browser-side, before uploading it ? I'm pretty sure JavaScript can do this, but I can't find a way to achieve it.
Here's the full scenario I would like to implement:
the user goes to my website, and choose an image via an input type="file" element,
this image is retrieved via JavaScript, we do some verification such as correct file format, maximum file size etc,
if every thing is OK, a preview of the image is displayed on the page,
the user can do some basic operations such as rotate the image by 90°/-90°, crop it following a pre-defined ratio, etc, or the user can upload another image and return to step 1,
when the user is satisfied, the edited image is then compressed and "saved" locally (not saved to a file, but in the browser memory/page),-
the user fill a form with data like name, age etc,
the user click on the "Finish" button, then the form containing datas + compressed image is sent to the server (without AJAX),
The full process up to the last step should be done client side, and should be compatible on latest Chrome and Firefox, Safari 5+ and IE 8+. If possible, only JavaScript should be used (but I'm pretty sure this is not possible).
I've not code anything right now, but I've thought about it already. File reading locally is possible via File API, image previewing and editing could be done using Canvas element, but I can't find a way to do the image compression part.
According to html5please.com and caniuse.com, supporting those browser is quite hard (thanks to IE), but could be done using polyfill such as FlashCanvas and FileReader.
Actually, the goal is to reduce file size, so I see image compression as a solution. But, I know that uploaded images are going to be displayed on my website, every time at the same place, and I know the dimension of this display area (eg. 200x400). So, I could resize the image to fit those dimensions, thus reducing file size. I have no idea what would be the compression ratio for this technique.
What do you think ? Do you have any advice to tell me ? Do you know any way to compress an image browser-side in JavaScript ? Thanks for your replies.
In short:
Read the files using the HTML5 FileReader API with .readAsArrayBuffer
Create a Blob with the file data and get its url with window.URL.createObjectURL(blob)
Create new Image element and set it's src to the file blob url
Send the image to the canvas. The canvas size is set to desired output size
Get the scaled-down data back from canvas via canvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg",0.7) (set your own output format and quality)
Attach new hidden inputs to the original form and transfer the dataURI images basically as normal text
On backend, read the dataURI, decode from Base64, and save it
Source: code.
I see two things missing from the other answers:
canvas.toBlob (when available) is more performant than canvas.toDataURL, and also async.
the file -> image -> canvas -> file conversion loses EXIF data; in particular, data about image rotation commonly set by modern phones/tablets.
The following script deals with both points:
// From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasElement/toBlob, needed for Safari:
if (!HTMLCanvasElement.prototype.toBlob) {
Object.defineProperty(HTMLCanvasElement.prototype, 'toBlob', {
value: function(callback, type, quality) {
var binStr = atob(this.toDataURL(type, quality).split(',')[1]),
len = binStr.length,
arr = new Uint8Array(len);
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
arr[i] = binStr.charCodeAt(i);
}
callback(new Blob([arr], {type: type || 'image/png'}));
}
});
}
window.URL = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
// Modified from https://stackoverflow.com/a/32490603, cc by-sa 3.0
// -2 = not jpeg, -1 = no data, 1..8 = orientations
function getExifOrientation(file, callback) {
// Suggestion from http://code.flickr.net/2012/06/01/parsing-exif-client-side-using-javascript-2/:
if (file.slice) {
file = file.slice(0, 131072);
} else if (file.webkitSlice) {
file = file.webkitSlice(0, 131072);
}
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(e) {
var view = new DataView(e.target.result);
if (view.getUint16(0, false) != 0xFFD8) {
callback(-2);
return;
}
var length = view.byteLength, offset = 2;
while (offset < length) {
var marker = view.getUint16(offset, false);
offset += 2;
if (marker == 0xFFE1) {
if (view.getUint32(offset += 2, false) != 0x45786966) {
callback(-1);
return;
}
var little = view.getUint16(offset += 6, false) == 0x4949;
offset += view.getUint32(offset + 4, little);
var tags = view.getUint16(offset, little);
offset += 2;
for (var i = 0; i < tags; i++)
if (view.getUint16(offset + (i * 12), little) == 0x0112) {
callback(view.getUint16(offset + (i * 12) + 8, little));
return;
}
}
else if ((marker & 0xFF00) != 0xFF00) break;
else offset += view.getUint16(offset, false);
}
callback(-1);
};
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(file);
}
// Derived from https://stackoverflow.com/a/40867559, cc by-sa
function imgToCanvasWithOrientation(img, rawWidth, rawHeight, orientation) {
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
if (orientation > 4) {
canvas.width = rawHeight;
canvas.height = rawWidth;
} else {
canvas.width = rawWidth;
canvas.height = rawHeight;
}
if (orientation > 1) {
console.log("EXIF orientation = " + orientation + ", rotating picture");
}
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
switch (orientation) {
case 2: ctx.transform(-1, 0, 0, 1, rawWidth, 0); break;
case 3: ctx.transform(-1, 0, 0, -1, rawWidth, rawHeight); break;
case 4: ctx.transform(1, 0, 0, -1, 0, rawHeight); break;
case 5: ctx.transform(0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0); break;
case 6: ctx.transform(0, 1, -1, 0, rawHeight, 0); break;
case 7: ctx.transform(0, -1, -1, 0, rawHeight, rawWidth); break;
case 8: ctx.transform(0, -1, 1, 0, 0, rawWidth); break;
}
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0, rawWidth, rawHeight);
return canvas;
}
function reduceFileSize(file, acceptFileSize, maxWidth, maxHeight, quality, callback) {
if (file.size <= acceptFileSize) {
callback(file);
return;
}
var img = new Image();
img.onerror = function() {
URL.revokeObjectURL(this.src);
callback(file);
};
img.onload = function() {
URL.revokeObjectURL(this.src);
getExifOrientation(file, function(orientation) {
var w = img.width, h = img.height;
var scale = (orientation > 4 ?
Math.min(maxHeight / w, maxWidth / h, 1) :
Math.min(maxWidth / w, maxHeight / h, 1));
h = Math.round(h * scale);
w = Math.round(w * scale);
var canvas = imgToCanvasWithOrientation(img, w, h, orientation);
canvas.toBlob(function(blob) {
console.log("Resized image to " + w + "x" + h + ", " + (blob.size >> 10) + "kB");
callback(blob);
}, 'image/jpeg', quality);
});
};
img.src = URL.createObjectURL(file);
}
Example usage:
inputfile.onchange = function() {
// If file size > 500kB, resize such that width <= 1000, quality = 0.9
reduceFileSize(this.files[0], 500*1024, 1000, Infinity, 0.9, blob => {
let body = new FormData();
body.set('file', blob, blob.name || "file.jpg");
fetch('/upload-image', {method: 'POST', body}).then(...);
});
};
#PsychoWoods' answer is good. I would like to offer my own solution. This Javascript function takes an image data URL and a width, scales it to the new width, and returns a new data URL.
// Take an image URL, downscale it to the given width, and return a new image URL.
function downscaleImage(dataUrl, newWidth, imageType, imageArguments) {
"use strict";
var image, oldWidth, oldHeight, newHeight, canvas, ctx, newDataUrl;
// Provide default values
imageType = imageType || "image/jpeg";
imageArguments = imageArguments || 0.7;
// Create a temporary image so that we can compute the height of the downscaled image.
image = new Image();
image.src = dataUrl;
oldWidth = image.width;
oldHeight = image.height;
newHeight = Math.floor(oldHeight / oldWidth * newWidth)
// Create a temporary canvas to draw the downscaled image on.
canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = newWidth;
canvas.height = newHeight;
// Draw the downscaled image on the canvas and return the new data URL.
ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(image, 0, 0, newWidth, newHeight);
newDataUrl = canvas.toDataURL(imageType, imageArguments);
return newDataUrl;
}
This code can be used anywhere you have a data URL and want a data URL for a downscaled image.
You can take a look at image-conversion,Try it here --> demo page
Try this Customizable Pure JS Sample - Compress over 90% :
<div id="root">
<p>Upload an image and see the result</p>
<input id="img-input" type="file" accept="image/*" style="display:block" />
</div>
<script>
const MAX_WIDTH = 320;
const MAX_HEIGHT = 180;
const MIME_TYPE = "image/jpeg";
const QUALITY = 0.7;
const input = document.getElementById("img-input");
input.onchange = function (ev) {
const file = ev.target.files[0]; // get the file
const blobURL = URL.createObjectURL(file);
const img = new Image();
img.src = blobURL;
img.onerror = function () {
URL.revokeObjectURL(this.src);
// Handle the failure properly
console.log("Cannot load image");
};
img.onload = function () {
URL.revokeObjectURL(this.src);
const [newWidth, newHeight] = calculateSize(img, MAX_WIDTH, MAX_HEIGHT);
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = newWidth;
canvas.height = newHeight;
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0, newWidth, newHeight);
canvas.toBlob(
(blob) => {
// Handle the compressed image. es. upload or save in local state
displayInfo('Original file', file);
displayInfo('Compressed file', blob);
},
MIME_TYPE,
QUALITY
);
document.getElementById("root").append(canvas);
};
};
function calculateSize(img, maxWidth, maxHeight) {
let width = img.width;
let height = img.height;
// calculate the width and height, constraining the proportions
if (width > height) {
if (width > maxWidth) {
height = Math.round((height * maxWidth) / width);
width = maxWidth;
}
} else {
if (height > maxHeight) {
width = Math.round((width * maxHeight) / height);
height = maxHeight;
}
}
return [width, height];
}
// Utility functions for demo purpose
function displayInfo(label, file) {
const p = document.createElement('p');
p.innerText = `${label} - ${readableBytes(file.size)}`;
document.getElementById('root').append(p);
}
function readableBytes(bytes) {
const i = Math.floor(Math.log(bytes) / Math.log(1024)),
sizes = ['B', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB', 'EB', 'ZB', 'YB'];
return (bytes / Math.pow(1024, i)).toFixed(2) + ' ' + sizes[i];
}
</script>
I find that there's simpler solution compared to the accepted answer.
Read the files using the HTML5 FileReader API with .readAsArrayBuffer
Create a Blob with the file data and get its url with window.URL.createObjectURL(blob)
Create new Image element and set it's src to the file blob url
Send the image to the canvas. The canvas size is set to desired output size
Get the scaled-down data back from canvas via canvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg",0.7) (set your own output format and quality)
Attach new hidden inputs to the original form and transfer the dataURI images basically as normal text
On backend, read the dataURI, decode from Base64, and save it
As per your question:
Is there a way to compress an image (mostly jpeg, png and gif)
directly browser-side, before uploading it
My solution:
Create a blob with the file directly with URL.createObjectURL(inputFileElement.files[0]).
Same as accepted answer.
Same as accepted answer. Worth mentioning that, canvas size is necessary and use img.width and img.height to set canvas.width and canvas.height. Not img.clientWidth.
Get the scale-down image by canvas.toBlob(callbackfunction(blob){}, 'image/jpeg', 0.5). Setting 'image/jpg' has no effect. image/png is also supported. Make a new File object inside the callbackfunction body with let compressedImageBlob = new File([blob]).
Add new hidden inputs or send via javascript . Server doesn't have to decode anything.
Check https://javascript.info/binary for all information. I came up the solution after reading this chapter.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<form action="upload.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
Select image to upload:
<input type="file" name="fileToUpload" id="fileToUpload" multiple>
<input type="submit" value="Upload Image" name="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
This code looks far less scary than the other answers..
Update:
One has to put everything inside img.onload. Otherwise canvas will not be able to get the image's width and height correctly as the time canvas is assigned.
function upload(){
var f = fileToUpload.files[0];
var fileName = f.name.split('.')[0];
var img = new Image();
img.src = URL.createObjectURL(f);
img.onload = function(){
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.width = img.width;
canvas.height = img.height;
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
canvas.toBlob(function(blob){
console.info(blob.size);
var f2 = new File([blob], fileName + ".jpeg");
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
var form = new FormData();
form.append("fileToUpload", f2);
xhr.open("POST", "upload.php");
xhr.send(form);
}, 'image/jpeg', 0.5);
}
}
3.4MB .png file compression test with image/jpeg argument set.
|0.9| 777KB |
|0.8| 383KB |
|0.7| 301KB |
|0.6| 251KB |
|0.5| 219kB |
I had an issue with the downscaleImage() function posted above by #daniel-allen-langdon in that the image.width and image.height properties are not available immediately because the image load is asynchronous.
Please see updated TypeScript example below that takes this into account, uses async functions, and resizes the image based on the longest dimension rather than just the width
function getImage(dataUrl: string): Promise<HTMLImageElement>
{
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
const image = new Image();
image.src = dataUrl;
image.onload = () => {
resolve(image);
};
image.onerror = (el: any, err: ErrorEvent) => {
reject(err.error);
};
});
}
export async function downscaleImage(
dataUrl: string,
imageType: string, // e.g. 'image/jpeg'
resolution: number, // max width/height in pixels
quality: number // e.g. 0.9 = 90% quality
): Promise<string> {
// Create a temporary image so that we can compute the height of the image.
const image = await getImage(dataUrl);
const oldWidth = image.naturalWidth;
const oldHeight = image.naturalHeight;
console.log('dims', oldWidth, oldHeight);
const longestDimension = oldWidth > oldHeight ? 'width' : 'height';
const currentRes = longestDimension == 'width' ? oldWidth : oldHeight;
console.log('longest dim', longestDimension, currentRes);
if (currentRes > resolution) {
console.log('need to resize...');
// Calculate new dimensions
const newSize = longestDimension == 'width'
? Math.floor(oldHeight / oldWidth * resolution)
: Math.floor(oldWidth / oldHeight * resolution);
const newWidth = longestDimension == 'width' ? resolution : newSize;
const newHeight = longestDimension == 'height' ? resolution : newSize;
console.log('new width / height', newWidth, newHeight);
// Create a temporary canvas to draw the downscaled image on.
const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.width = newWidth;
canvas.height = newHeight;
// Draw the downscaled image on the canvas and return the new data URL.
const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d')!;
ctx.drawImage(image, 0, 0, newWidth, newHeight);
const newDataUrl = canvas.toDataURL(imageType, quality);
return newDataUrl;
}
else {
return dataUrl;
}
}
For Moderm browser use createImageBitmap() instead of img.onload
async function compressImage(blobImg, percent) {
let bitmap = await createImageBitmap(blobImg);
let canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
let ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
canvas.width = bitmap.width;
canvas.height = bitmap.height;
ctx.drawImage(bitmap, 0, 0);
let dataUrl = canvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg", percent/100);
return dataUrl;
}
inputImg.addEventListener('change', async(e) => {
let img = e.target.files[0];
console.log('File Name: ', img.name)
console.log('Original Size: ', img.size.toLocaleString())
let imgCompressed = await compressImage(img, 75) // set to 75%
let compSize = atob(imgCompressed.split(",")[1]).length;
console.log('Compressed Size: ', compSize.toLocaleString())
//console.log(imgCompressed)
})
<input type="file" id="inputImg">
Edit: As per the Mr Me comment on this answer, it looks like compression is now available for JPG/WebP formats ( see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasElement/toDataURL ).
As far as I know, you cannot compress images using canvas, instead, you can resize it. Using canvas.toDataURL will not let you choose the compression ratio to use. You can take a look at canimage that does exactly what you want : https://github.com/nfroidure/CanImage/blob/master/chrome/canimage/content/canimage.js
In fact, it's often sufficient to just resize the image to decrease it's size but if you want to go further, you'll have to use newly introduced method file.readAsArrayBuffer to get a buffer containing the image data.
Then, just use a DataView to read it's content according to the image format specification (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics).
It'll be hard to deal with image data compression, but it is worse a try. On the other hand, you can try to delete the PNG headers or the JPEG exif data to make your image smaller, it should be easier to do so.
You'll have to create another DataWiew on another buffer and fill it with the filtered image content. Then, you'll just have to encode you're image content to DataURI using window.btoa.
Let me know if you implement something similar, will be interesting to go through the code.
Compressor.js
https://github.com/fengyuanchen/compressorjs
import axios from 'axios';
import Compressor from 'compressorjs';
document.getElementById('file').addEventListener('change', (e) => {
const file = e.target.files[0];
if (!file) {
return;
}
new Compressor(file, {
quality: 0.6,
// The compression process is asynchronous,
// which means you have to access the `result` in the `success` hook function.
success(result) {
const formData = new FormData();
// The third parameter is required for server
formData.append('file', result, result.name);
// Send the compressed image file to server with XMLHttpRequest.
axios.post('/path/to/upload', formData).then(() => {
console.log('Upload success');
});
},
error(err) {
console.log(err.message);
},
});
});
I used the following package:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/browser-image-compression
npm install browser-image-compression
or
yarn add browser-image-compression
Then just following the docs:
import imageCompression from 'browser-image-compression';
const options = {
maxSizeMB: 0.5, // pretty much self-explanatory
maxWidthOrHeight: 500, // apparently px
}
imageCompression(file, options)
.then(function(compressedFile) {
console.log(
"compressedFile instanceof Blob",
compressedFile instanceof Blob
); // true
console.log(
`compressedFile size ${compressedFile.size /
1024 /
1024} MB`
); // smaller than maxSizeMB
return uploader(compressedFile); // code to actual upload, in my case uploader() is a function to upload to Firebase storage.
})
Just in case if you were curios about the uploader(), here's the code of it:
import { initializeApp } from "firebase/app";
const firebaseConfig = {
// your config
};
initializeApp(firebaseConfig);
import { getStorage, ref, uploadBytes, getDownloadURL } from "firebase/storage";
const storage = getStorage();
const sRef = ref(storage);
const uploader = async (file) => {
/* uploads to root */
// const imageRef = ref(sRef, file.name);
// console.log(imageRef);
// await uploadBytes(imageRef, file).then((snapshot) => {
// console.log("Uploaded a blob or file!", snapshot);
// });
/* upload to folder 'techs/' */
const folderRef = ref(sRef, "techs/" + file.name);
await uploadBytes(folderRef, file);
// get URL
const url = await getDownloadURL(ref(storage, folderRef));
console.log("url: ", url);
return url;
};
You can compress an image using the HTML <canvas> element:
function compressImage(imgToCompress, resizingFactor, quality) {
// resizing the image
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
const context = canvas.getContext("2d");
const originalWidth = imgToCompress.width;
const originalHeight = imgToCompress.height;
const canvasWidth = originalWidth * resizingFactor;
const canvasHeight = originalHeight * resizingFactor;
canvas.width = canvasWidth;
canvas.height = canvasHeight;
context.drawImage(
imgToCompress,
0,
0,
originalWidth * resizingFactor,
originalHeight * resizingFactor
);
// reducing the quality of the image
canvas.toBlob(
(blob) => {
if (blob) {
// showing the compressed image
resizedImage.src = URL.createObjectURL(resizedImageBlob);
}
},
"image/jpeg",
quality
);
}
See this blog post for an in depth explanation: https://img.ly/blog/how-to-compress-an-image-before-uploading-it-in-javascript/
i improved the function a head to be this :
var minifyImg = function(dataUrl,newWidth,imageType="image/jpeg",resolve,imageArguments=0.7){
var image, oldWidth, oldHeight, newHeight, canvas, ctx, newDataUrl;
(new Promise(function(resolve){
image = new Image(); image.src = dataUrl;
log(image);
resolve('Done : ');
})).then((d)=>{
oldWidth = image.width; oldHeight = image.height;
log([oldWidth,oldHeight]);
newHeight = Math.floor(oldHeight / oldWidth * newWidth);
log(d+' '+newHeight);
canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = newWidth; canvas.height = newHeight;
log(canvas);
ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(image, 0, 0, newWidth, newHeight);
//log(ctx);
newDataUrl = canvas.toDataURL(imageType, imageArguments);
resolve(newDataUrl);
});
};
the use of it :
minifyImg(<--DATAURL_HERE-->,<--new width-->,<--type like image/jpeg-->,(data)=>{
console.log(data); // the new DATAURL
});
enjoy ;)
For JPG Image compression you can use the best compression technique called JIC
(Javascript Image Compression)This will definitely help you -->https://github.com/brunobar79/J-I-C
I have a Gatsby application using the CMS Contentful. I have implemented Image Focal Point on Contentful which returns x and y coordinates for image cropping. I have tried using HTML Canvas to resize the image based on the coordinates from Image Focal Point but with no luck.
Here is what I have tried:
const resizeImage = (url, width, height, x, y, callback) => {
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas")
const context = canvas.getContext("2d")
const imageObj = new Image()
canvas.width = width
canvas.height = height
imageObj.src = url
imageObj.setAttribute("crossorigin", "anonymous")
imageObj.onload = function () {
context.drawImage(imageObj, x, y, width, height, x, y, width, height)
callback(canvas.toDataURL())
}
return imageObj.src
}
I pass in the url for the image, the width and height of said image, the x and y coordinates from Image Focal Point and a callback:
resizeImage("my-image.png", 1000, 500, 300, 600, (url) => {url})
This returns the same src url as I inputted and does not crop the image to the desired xy coordinates. Any guidance is greatly appreciated!
You may have had security issues, specifically this: for security reasons, your local drive is declared as "other domain" and it will stain the canvas. and for this reason his image was not cropped. I ran into this problem with an image of a server while replicating your code, so be careful.
I generated a codesandbox with your code, let me know if you want to cut the image in this way
const resizeImage = (url, width, height, x, y, callback) => {
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
const imageObj = new Image();
canvas.width = width;
canvas.height = height;
imageObj.src = url;
imageObj.crossOrigin = "anonymous"; //WARNING!
imageObj.onload = () => {
context.drawImage(imageObj, x, y, width, height, 0, 0, width, height);
const url = canvas.toDataURL();
callback(url);
};
};
I found code that crops images in javascript using canvas but I need to crop an image that is never actually displayed anywhere since all I need is to get data from the image. There is a screenshot and then the buffered screenshot image needs to be cropped from specific coordinates.
The image is simply stored in a variable to begin with let img = new Image(). How could this code be modified to crop an image stored in the buffer only?
function resizeImage(url, width, height, x, y, callback) {
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
var imageObj = new Image();
// set canvas dimensions
canvas.width = width;
canvas.height = height;
imageObj.onload = function () {
context.drawImage(imageObj, x, y, width, height, 0, 0, width, height);
callback(canvas.toDataURL());
};
imageObj.src = url;
}
Since no one answered I will post what I found. In the end I achieved what I needed using the library Sharp's extract feature.
img.onload = resizeImg;
img.src = 'image.png';
function resizeImg() {
this.path = this.path = 'image.png';
sharp(this.path)
.resize(this.width * 2, this.height * 2)
.extract({ width: 100, height: 20, left: 250, top: 100 })
.toBuffer({ resolveWithObject: true })
.then(({ data, info }) => {
//process data
})
}
I have a canvas which is loaded with a png image. I get its jpg base64 string by .toDataURL() method like this:
$('#base64str').val(canvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg"));
But the transparent parts of the png image are shown black in the new jpg image.
Any solutions to change this color to white? Thanks in advance.
This blackening occurs because the 'image/jpeg' conversion involves setting the alpha of all canvas pixels to fully opaque (alpha=255). The problem is that transparent canvas pixels are colored fully-black-but-transparent. So when you turn these black pixels opaque, the result is a blackened jpeg.
The workaround is to manually change all non-opaque canvas pixels to your desired white color instead of black.
That way when they are made opaque they will appear as white instead of black pixels.
Here's how:
// change non-opaque pixels to white
var imgData=ctx.getImageData(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);
var data=imgData.data;
for(var i=0;i<data.length;i+=4){
if(data[i+3]<255){
data[i]=255;
data[i+1]=255;
data[i+2]=255;
data[i+3]=255;
}
}
ctx.putImageData(imgData,0,0);
After spending a lot of time on this and this post specifically, and these solutions kinda worked expect I just couldn't get the canvas to look right. Anyway I found this solution elsewhere and wanted to post it here incase it helps someone else from spending hours trying to get the black background to white and look like the original.
public getURI(): string {
let canvas = <HTMLCanvasElement>document.getElementById('chartcanvas');
var newCanvas = <HTMLCanvasElement>canvas.cloneNode(true);
var ctx = newCanvas.getContext('2d');
ctx.fillStyle = "#FFF";
ctx.fillRect(0, 0, newCanvas.width, newCanvas.height);
ctx.drawImage(canvas, 0, 0);
return newCanvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg");
}
This answer is a bit longer, but I find it to be more 'correct' in that it handles these things without directly modifying raw canvas data. I find that to be a pretty messy and theoretically unsatisfying solution. There are built in functions to achieve that, and they ought to be used. Here is the solution I found/pilfered:
function canvasToImage(backgroundColor){
var context = document.getElementById('canvas').getContext('2d');
canvas = context.canvas;
//cache height and width
var w = canvas.width;
var h = canvas.height;
var data;
//get the current ImageData for the canvas.
data = context.getImageData(0, 0, w, h);
//store the current globalCompositeOperation
var compositeOperation = context.globalCompositeOperation;
//set to draw behind current content
context.globalCompositeOperation = "destination-over";
//set background color
context.fillStyle = backgroundColor;
//draw background / rect on entire canvas
context.fillRect(0,0,w,h);
//get the image data from the canvas
var imageData = this.canvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg");
//clear the canvas
context.clearRect (0,0,w,h);
//restore it with original / cached ImageData
context.putImageData(data, 0,0);
//reset the globalCompositeOperation to what it was
context.globalCompositeOperation = compositeOperation;
//return the Base64 encoded data url string
return imageData;
}
Basically, you create a white background image and underlay it under the canvas and then print that. This function is mostly plagiarized from someone's blog, but it required a bit of modification -- such as actually getting the context -- and copied directly from my (working) code, so as long as your canvas element has the id 'canvas', you should be able to copy/paste it and have it work.
This is the blog post I modified it from:
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2011/01/31/setting-the-background-color-when-generating-images-from-canvas-todataurl/
The big advantage of my function over this is that it outputs to jpeg instead of png, which is more likely to work well in chrome, which has a dataurl limit of 2MB, and it actually grabs the context, which was a glaring omission in the original function.
Marks answer is correct, but when a picture has some antialiasing applied, the exported image won't be as good as it should be (mainly text). I would like to enhance his solution:
// change non-opaque pixels to white
var imgData=ctx.getImageData(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);
var data=imgData.data;
for(var i=0;i<data.length;i+=4){
if(data[i+3]<255){
data[i] = 255 - data[i];
data[i+1] = 255 - data[i+1];
data[i+2] = 255 - data[i+2];
data[i+3] = 255 - data[i+3];
}
}
ctx.putImageData(imgData,0,0);
If you want to move to white only full transparent pixels just check for (data[i+3]==0) instead of (data[i+3]<255).
Why not to save it as PNG?
canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
// change non-opaque pixels to white
var imgData=ctx.getImageData(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);
var data=imgData.data;
for(var i=0;i<data.length;i+=4){
if(data[i+3]<255){
data[i] = 255 - data[i];
data[i+1] = 255 - data[i+1];
data[i+2] = 255 - data[i+2];
data[i+3] = 255 - data[i+3];
}
Here is my function that resizes a photo and handles the black transparent background problem:
resizeImage({ file, maxSize, backgroundColor }) {
const fr = new FileReader();
const img = new Image();
const dataURItoBlob = (dataURI) => {
const bytes = (dataURI.split(',')[0].indexOf('base64') >= 0)
? window.atob(dataURI.split(',')[1])
: window.unescape(dataURI.split(',')[1]);
const mime = dataURI.split(',')[0].split(':')[1].split(';')[0];
const max = bytes.length;
const ia = new Uint8Array(max);
for (let i = 0; i < max; i += 1) {
ia[i] = bytes.charCodeAt(i);
}
return new Blob([ia], { type: mime });
};
const resize = () => {
// create a canvas element to manipulate
const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.setAttribute('id', 'canvas');
const context = canvas.getContext('2d');
// setup some resizing definitions
let { width, height } = img;
const isTooWide = ((width > height) && (width > maxSize));
const isTooTall = (height > maxSize);
// resize according to `maxSize`
if (isTooWide) {
height *= maxSize / width;
width = maxSize;
} else if (isTooTall) {
width *= maxSize / height;
height = maxSize;
}
// resize the canvas
canvas.width = width;
canvas.height = height;
// place the image on the canvas
context.drawImage(img, 0, 0, width, height);
// get the current ImageData for the canvas
const data = context.getImageData(0, 0, width, height);
// store the current globalCompositeOperation
const compositeOperation = context.globalCompositeOperation;
// set to draw behind current content
context.globalCompositeOperation = 'destination-over';
// set background color
context.fillStyle = backgroundColor;
// draw background / rect on entire canvas
context.fillRect(0, 0, width, height);
// get the image data from the canvas
const imageData = canvas.toDataURL('image/jpeg');
// clear the canvas
context.clearRect(0, 0, width, height);
// restore it with original / cached ImageData
context.putImageData(data, 0, 0);
// reset the globalCompositeOperation to what it was
context.globalCompositeOperation = compositeOperation;
// return the base64-encoded data url string
return dataURItoBlob(imageData);
};
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
if (!file.type.match(/image.*/)) {
reject(new Error('VImageInput# Problem resizing image: file must be an image.'));
}
fr.onload = (readerEvent) => {
img.onload = () => resolve(resize());
img.src = readerEvent.target.result;
};
fr.readAsDataURL(file);
});
},
That is a Vue JS instance method that can be used like this:
// this would be the user-uploaded file from the input element
const image = file;
const settings = {
file: image,
maxSize: 192, // to make 192x192 image
backgroundColor: '#FFF',
};
// this will output a base64 string you can dump into your database
const resizedImage = await this.resizeImage(settings);
My solution here is a combination of about 74 different StackOverflow answers related to resizing images client-side, and the final boss was to handle transparent PNG files.
My answer would not be possible without Laereom's answer here.
TL;DR;
Is there a way to compress an image (mostly jpeg, png and gif) directly browser-side, before uploading it ? I'm pretty sure JavaScript can do this, but I can't find a way to achieve it.
Here's the full scenario I would like to implement:
the user goes to my website, and choose an image via an input type="file" element,
this image is retrieved via JavaScript, we do some verification such as correct file format, maximum file size etc,
if every thing is OK, a preview of the image is displayed on the page,
the user can do some basic operations such as rotate the image by 90°/-90°, crop it following a pre-defined ratio, etc, or the user can upload another image and return to step 1,
when the user is satisfied, the edited image is then compressed and "saved" locally (not saved to a file, but in the browser memory/page),-
the user fill a form with data like name, age etc,
the user click on the "Finish" button, then the form containing datas + compressed image is sent to the server (without AJAX),
The full process up to the last step should be done client side, and should be compatible on latest Chrome and Firefox, Safari 5+ and IE 8+. If possible, only JavaScript should be used (but I'm pretty sure this is not possible).
I've not code anything right now, but I've thought about it already. File reading locally is possible via File API, image previewing and editing could be done using Canvas element, but I can't find a way to do the image compression part.
According to html5please.com and caniuse.com, supporting those browser is quite hard (thanks to IE), but could be done using polyfill such as FlashCanvas and FileReader.
Actually, the goal is to reduce file size, so I see image compression as a solution. But, I know that uploaded images are going to be displayed on my website, every time at the same place, and I know the dimension of this display area (eg. 200x400). So, I could resize the image to fit those dimensions, thus reducing file size. I have no idea what would be the compression ratio for this technique.
What do you think ? Do you have any advice to tell me ? Do you know any way to compress an image browser-side in JavaScript ? Thanks for your replies.
In short:
Read the files using the HTML5 FileReader API with .readAsArrayBuffer
Create a Blob with the file data and get its url with window.URL.createObjectURL(blob)
Create new Image element and set it's src to the file blob url
Send the image to the canvas. The canvas size is set to desired output size
Get the scaled-down data back from canvas via canvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg",0.7) (set your own output format and quality)
Attach new hidden inputs to the original form and transfer the dataURI images basically as normal text
On backend, read the dataURI, decode from Base64, and save it
Source: code.
I see two things missing from the other answers:
canvas.toBlob (when available) is more performant than canvas.toDataURL, and also async.
the file -> image -> canvas -> file conversion loses EXIF data; in particular, data about image rotation commonly set by modern phones/tablets.
The following script deals with both points:
// From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasElement/toBlob, needed for Safari:
if (!HTMLCanvasElement.prototype.toBlob) {
Object.defineProperty(HTMLCanvasElement.prototype, 'toBlob', {
value: function(callback, type, quality) {
var binStr = atob(this.toDataURL(type, quality).split(',')[1]),
len = binStr.length,
arr = new Uint8Array(len);
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
arr[i] = binStr.charCodeAt(i);
}
callback(new Blob([arr], {type: type || 'image/png'}));
}
});
}
window.URL = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
// Modified from https://stackoverflow.com/a/32490603, cc by-sa 3.0
// -2 = not jpeg, -1 = no data, 1..8 = orientations
function getExifOrientation(file, callback) {
// Suggestion from http://code.flickr.net/2012/06/01/parsing-exif-client-side-using-javascript-2/:
if (file.slice) {
file = file.slice(0, 131072);
} else if (file.webkitSlice) {
file = file.webkitSlice(0, 131072);
}
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(e) {
var view = new DataView(e.target.result);
if (view.getUint16(0, false) != 0xFFD8) {
callback(-2);
return;
}
var length = view.byteLength, offset = 2;
while (offset < length) {
var marker = view.getUint16(offset, false);
offset += 2;
if (marker == 0xFFE1) {
if (view.getUint32(offset += 2, false) != 0x45786966) {
callback(-1);
return;
}
var little = view.getUint16(offset += 6, false) == 0x4949;
offset += view.getUint32(offset + 4, little);
var tags = view.getUint16(offset, little);
offset += 2;
for (var i = 0; i < tags; i++)
if (view.getUint16(offset + (i * 12), little) == 0x0112) {
callback(view.getUint16(offset + (i * 12) + 8, little));
return;
}
}
else if ((marker & 0xFF00) != 0xFF00) break;
else offset += view.getUint16(offset, false);
}
callback(-1);
};
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(file);
}
// Derived from https://stackoverflow.com/a/40867559, cc by-sa
function imgToCanvasWithOrientation(img, rawWidth, rawHeight, orientation) {
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
if (orientation > 4) {
canvas.width = rawHeight;
canvas.height = rawWidth;
} else {
canvas.width = rawWidth;
canvas.height = rawHeight;
}
if (orientation > 1) {
console.log("EXIF orientation = " + orientation + ", rotating picture");
}
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
switch (orientation) {
case 2: ctx.transform(-1, 0, 0, 1, rawWidth, 0); break;
case 3: ctx.transform(-1, 0, 0, -1, rawWidth, rawHeight); break;
case 4: ctx.transform(1, 0, 0, -1, 0, rawHeight); break;
case 5: ctx.transform(0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0); break;
case 6: ctx.transform(0, 1, -1, 0, rawHeight, 0); break;
case 7: ctx.transform(0, -1, -1, 0, rawHeight, rawWidth); break;
case 8: ctx.transform(0, -1, 1, 0, 0, rawWidth); break;
}
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0, rawWidth, rawHeight);
return canvas;
}
function reduceFileSize(file, acceptFileSize, maxWidth, maxHeight, quality, callback) {
if (file.size <= acceptFileSize) {
callback(file);
return;
}
var img = new Image();
img.onerror = function() {
URL.revokeObjectURL(this.src);
callback(file);
};
img.onload = function() {
URL.revokeObjectURL(this.src);
getExifOrientation(file, function(orientation) {
var w = img.width, h = img.height;
var scale = (orientation > 4 ?
Math.min(maxHeight / w, maxWidth / h, 1) :
Math.min(maxWidth / w, maxHeight / h, 1));
h = Math.round(h * scale);
w = Math.round(w * scale);
var canvas = imgToCanvasWithOrientation(img, w, h, orientation);
canvas.toBlob(function(blob) {
console.log("Resized image to " + w + "x" + h + ", " + (blob.size >> 10) + "kB");
callback(blob);
}, 'image/jpeg', quality);
});
};
img.src = URL.createObjectURL(file);
}
Example usage:
inputfile.onchange = function() {
// If file size > 500kB, resize such that width <= 1000, quality = 0.9
reduceFileSize(this.files[0], 500*1024, 1000, Infinity, 0.9, blob => {
let body = new FormData();
body.set('file', blob, blob.name || "file.jpg");
fetch('/upload-image', {method: 'POST', body}).then(...);
});
};
#PsychoWoods' answer is good. I would like to offer my own solution. This Javascript function takes an image data URL and a width, scales it to the new width, and returns a new data URL.
// Take an image URL, downscale it to the given width, and return a new image URL.
function downscaleImage(dataUrl, newWidth, imageType, imageArguments) {
"use strict";
var image, oldWidth, oldHeight, newHeight, canvas, ctx, newDataUrl;
// Provide default values
imageType = imageType || "image/jpeg";
imageArguments = imageArguments || 0.7;
// Create a temporary image so that we can compute the height of the downscaled image.
image = new Image();
image.src = dataUrl;
oldWidth = image.width;
oldHeight = image.height;
newHeight = Math.floor(oldHeight / oldWidth * newWidth)
// Create a temporary canvas to draw the downscaled image on.
canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = newWidth;
canvas.height = newHeight;
// Draw the downscaled image on the canvas and return the new data URL.
ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(image, 0, 0, newWidth, newHeight);
newDataUrl = canvas.toDataURL(imageType, imageArguments);
return newDataUrl;
}
This code can be used anywhere you have a data URL and want a data URL for a downscaled image.
You can take a look at image-conversion,Try it here --> demo page
Try this Customizable Pure JS Sample - Compress over 90% :
<div id="root">
<p>Upload an image and see the result</p>
<input id="img-input" type="file" accept="image/*" style="display:block" />
</div>
<script>
const MAX_WIDTH = 320;
const MAX_HEIGHT = 180;
const MIME_TYPE = "image/jpeg";
const QUALITY = 0.7;
const input = document.getElementById("img-input");
input.onchange = function (ev) {
const file = ev.target.files[0]; // get the file
const blobURL = URL.createObjectURL(file);
const img = new Image();
img.src = blobURL;
img.onerror = function () {
URL.revokeObjectURL(this.src);
// Handle the failure properly
console.log("Cannot load image");
};
img.onload = function () {
URL.revokeObjectURL(this.src);
const [newWidth, newHeight] = calculateSize(img, MAX_WIDTH, MAX_HEIGHT);
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = newWidth;
canvas.height = newHeight;
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0, newWidth, newHeight);
canvas.toBlob(
(blob) => {
// Handle the compressed image. es. upload or save in local state
displayInfo('Original file', file);
displayInfo('Compressed file', blob);
},
MIME_TYPE,
QUALITY
);
document.getElementById("root").append(canvas);
};
};
function calculateSize(img, maxWidth, maxHeight) {
let width = img.width;
let height = img.height;
// calculate the width and height, constraining the proportions
if (width > height) {
if (width > maxWidth) {
height = Math.round((height * maxWidth) / width);
width = maxWidth;
}
} else {
if (height > maxHeight) {
width = Math.round((width * maxHeight) / height);
height = maxHeight;
}
}
return [width, height];
}
// Utility functions for demo purpose
function displayInfo(label, file) {
const p = document.createElement('p');
p.innerText = `${label} - ${readableBytes(file.size)}`;
document.getElementById('root').append(p);
}
function readableBytes(bytes) {
const i = Math.floor(Math.log(bytes) / Math.log(1024)),
sizes = ['B', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB', 'EB', 'ZB', 'YB'];
return (bytes / Math.pow(1024, i)).toFixed(2) + ' ' + sizes[i];
}
</script>
I find that there's simpler solution compared to the accepted answer.
Read the files using the HTML5 FileReader API with .readAsArrayBuffer
Create a Blob with the file data and get its url with window.URL.createObjectURL(blob)
Create new Image element and set it's src to the file blob url
Send the image to the canvas. The canvas size is set to desired output size
Get the scaled-down data back from canvas via canvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg",0.7) (set your own output format and quality)
Attach new hidden inputs to the original form and transfer the dataURI images basically as normal text
On backend, read the dataURI, decode from Base64, and save it
As per your question:
Is there a way to compress an image (mostly jpeg, png and gif)
directly browser-side, before uploading it
My solution:
Create a blob with the file directly with URL.createObjectURL(inputFileElement.files[0]).
Same as accepted answer.
Same as accepted answer. Worth mentioning that, canvas size is necessary and use img.width and img.height to set canvas.width and canvas.height. Not img.clientWidth.
Get the scale-down image by canvas.toBlob(callbackfunction(blob){}, 'image/jpeg', 0.5). Setting 'image/jpg' has no effect. image/png is also supported. Make a new File object inside the callbackfunction body with let compressedImageBlob = new File([blob]).
Add new hidden inputs or send via javascript . Server doesn't have to decode anything.
Check https://javascript.info/binary for all information. I came up the solution after reading this chapter.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<form action="upload.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
Select image to upload:
<input type="file" name="fileToUpload" id="fileToUpload" multiple>
<input type="submit" value="Upload Image" name="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
This code looks far less scary than the other answers..
Update:
One has to put everything inside img.onload. Otherwise canvas will not be able to get the image's width and height correctly as the time canvas is assigned.
function upload(){
var f = fileToUpload.files[0];
var fileName = f.name.split('.')[0];
var img = new Image();
img.src = URL.createObjectURL(f);
img.onload = function(){
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.width = img.width;
canvas.height = img.height;
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
canvas.toBlob(function(blob){
console.info(blob.size);
var f2 = new File([blob], fileName + ".jpeg");
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
var form = new FormData();
form.append("fileToUpload", f2);
xhr.open("POST", "upload.php");
xhr.send(form);
}, 'image/jpeg', 0.5);
}
}
3.4MB .png file compression test with image/jpeg argument set.
|0.9| 777KB |
|0.8| 383KB |
|0.7| 301KB |
|0.6| 251KB |
|0.5| 219kB |
I had an issue with the downscaleImage() function posted above by #daniel-allen-langdon in that the image.width and image.height properties are not available immediately because the image load is asynchronous.
Please see updated TypeScript example below that takes this into account, uses async functions, and resizes the image based on the longest dimension rather than just the width
function getImage(dataUrl: string): Promise<HTMLImageElement>
{
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
const image = new Image();
image.src = dataUrl;
image.onload = () => {
resolve(image);
};
image.onerror = (el: any, err: ErrorEvent) => {
reject(err.error);
};
});
}
export async function downscaleImage(
dataUrl: string,
imageType: string, // e.g. 'image/jpeg'
resolution: number, // max width/height in pixels
quality: number // e.g. 0.9 = 90% quality
): Promise<string> {
// Create a temporary image so that we can compute the height of the image.
const image = await getImage(dataUrl);
const oldWidth = image.naturalWidth;
const oldHeight = image.naturalHeight;
console.log('dims', oldWidth, oldHeight);
const longestDimension = oldWidth > oldHeight ? 'width' : 'height';
const currentRes = longestDimension == 'width' ? oldWidth : oldHeight;
console.log('longest dim', longestDimension, currentRes);
if (currentRes > resolution) {
console.log('need to resize...');
// Calculate new dimensions
const newSize = longestDimension == 'width'
? Math.floor(oldHeight / oldWidth * resolution)
: Math.floor(oldWidth / oldHeight * resolution);
const newWidth = longestDimension == 'width' ? resolution : newSize;
const newHeight = longestDimension == 'height' ? resolution : newSize;
console.log('new width / height', newWidth, newHeight);
// Create a temporary canvas to draw the downscaled image on.
const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.width = newWidth;
canvas.height = newHeight;
// Draw the downscaled image on the canvas and return the new data URL.
const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d')!;
ctx.drawImage(image, 0, 0, newWidth, newHeight);
const newDataUrl = canvas.toDataURL(imageType, quality);
return newDataUrl;
}
else {
return dataUrl;
}
}
For Moderm browser use createImageBitmap() instead of img.onload
async function compressImage(blobImg, percent) {
let bitmap = await createImageBitmap(blobImg);
let canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
let ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
canvas.width = bitmap.width;
canvas.height = bitmap.height;
ctx.drawImage(bitmap, 0, 0);
let dataUrl = canvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg", percent/100);
return dataUrl;
}
inputImg.addEventListener('change', async(e) => {
let img = e.target.files[0];
console.log('File Name: ', img.name)
console.log('Original Size: ', img.size.toLocaleString())
let imgCompressed = await compressImage(img, 75) // set to 75%
let compSize = atob(imgCompressed.split(",")[1]).length;
console.log('Compressed Size: ', compSize.toLocaleString())
//console.log(imgCompressed)
})
<input type="file" id="inputImg">
Edit: As per the Mr Me comment on this answer, it looks like compression is now available for JPG/WebP formats ( see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasElement/toDataURL ).
As far as I know, you cannot compress images using canvas, instead, you can resize it. Using canvas.toDataURL will not let you choose the compression ratio to use. You can take a look at canimage that does exactly what you want : https://github.com/nfroidure/CanImage/blob/master/chrome/canimage/content/canimage.js
In fact, it's often sufficient to just resize the image to decrease it's size but if you want to go further, you'll have to use newly introduced method file.readAsArrayBuffer to get a buffer containing the image data.
Then, just use a DataView to read it's content according to the image format specification (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics).
It'll be hard to deal with image data compression, but it is worse a try. On the other hand, you can try to delete the PNG headers or the JPEG exif data to make your image smaller, it should be easier to do so.
You'll have to create another DataWiew on another buffer and fill it with the filtered image content. Then, you'll just have to encode you're image content to DataURI using window.btoa.
Let me know if you implement something similar, will be interesting to go through the code.
Compressor.js
https://github.com/fengyuanchen/compressorjs
import axios from 'axios';
import Compressor from 'compressorjs';
document.getElementById('file').addEventListener('change', (e) => {
const file = e.target.files[0];
if (!file) {
return;
}
new Compressor(file, {
quality: 0.6,
// The compression process is asynchronous,
// which means you have to access the `result` in the `success` hook function.
success(result) {
const formData = new FormData();
// The third parameter is required for server
formData.append('file', result, result.name);
// Send the compressed image file to server with XMLHttpRequest.
axios.post('/path/to/upload', formData).then(() => {
console.log('Upload success');
});
},
error(err) {
console.log(err.message);
},
});
});
I used the following package:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/browser-image-compression
npm install browser-image-compression
or
yarn add browser-image-compression
Then just following the docs:
import imageCompression from 'browser-image-compression';
const options = {
maxSizeMB: 0.5, // pretty much self-explanatory
maxWidthOrHeight: 500, // apparently px
}
imageCompression(file, options)
.then(function(compressedFile) {
console.log(
"compressedFile instanceof Blob",
compressedFile instanceof Blob
); // true
console.log(
`compressedFile size ${compressedFile.size /
1024 /
1024} MB`
); // smaller than maxSizeMB
return uploader(compressedFile); // code to actual upload, in my case uploader() is a function to upload to Firebase storage.
})
Just in case if you were curios about the uploader(), here's the code of it:
import { initializeApp } from "firebase/app";
const firebaseConfig = {
// your config
};
initializeApp(firebaseConfig);
import { getStorage, ref, uploadBytes, getDownloadURL } from "firebase/storage";
const storage = getStorage();
const sRef = ref(storage);
const uploader = async (file) => {
/* uploads to root */
// const imageRef = ref(sRef, file.name);
// console.log(imageRef);
// await uploadBytes(imageRef, file).then((snapshot) => {
// console.log("Uploaded a blob or file!", snapshot);
// });
/* upload to folder 'techs/' */
const folderRef = ref(sRef, "techs/" + file.name);
await uploadBytes(folderRef, file);
// get URL
const url = await getDownloadURL(ref(storage, folderRef));
console.log("url: ", url);
return url;
};
You can compress an image using the HTML <canvas> element:
function compressImage(imgToCompress, resizingFactor, quality) {
// resizing the image
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
const context = canvas.getContext("2d");
const originalWidth = imgToCompress.width;
const originalHeight = imgToCompress.height;
const canvasWidth = originalWidth * resizingFactor;
const canvasHeight = originalHeight * resizingFactor;
canvas.width = canvasWidth;
canvas.height = canvasHeight;
context.drawImage(
imgToCompress,
0,
0,
originalWidth * resizingFactor,
originalHeight * resizingFactor
);
// reducing the quality of the image
canvas.toBlob(
(blob) => {
if (blob) {
// showing the compressed image
resizedImage.src = URL.createObjectURL(resizedImageBlob);
}
},
"image/jpeg",
quality
);
}
See this blog post for an in depth explanation: https://img.ly/blog/how-to-compress-an-image-before-uploading-it-in-javascript/
i improved the function a head to be this :
var minifyImg = function(dataUrl,newWidth,imageType="image/jpeg",resolve,imageArguments=0.7){
var image, oldWidth, oldHeight, newHeight, canvas, ctx, newDataUrl;
(new Promise(function(resolve){
image = new Image(); image.src = dataUrl;
log(image);
resolve('Done : ');
})).then((d)=>{
oldWidth = image.width; oldHeight = image.height;
log([oldWidth,oldHeight]);
newHeight = Math.floor(oldHeight / oldWidth * newWidth);
log(d+' '+newHeight);
canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = newWidth; canvas.height = newHeight;
log(canvas);
ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(image, 0, 0, newWidth, newHeight);
//log(ctx);
newDataUrl = canvas.toDataURL(imageType, imageArguments);
resolve(newDataUrl);
});
};
the use of it :
minifyImg(<--DATAURL_HERE-->,<--new width-->,<--type like image/jpeg-->,(data)=>{
console.log(data); // the new DATAURL
});
enjoy ;)
For JPG Image compression you can use the best compression technique called JIC
(Javascript Image Compression)This will definitely help you -->https://github.com/brunobar79/J-I-C