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Downloading an SVG as a PNG at a Specific Size via Javascript

I am trying to set up a generator to let people custom build wallpapers for their phones. At the moment I have them doing the customizing by editing an svg template by changing the colors and text through a form which is working perfectly.
Then once they click submit they are prompted to download their wallpaper as a png. Once the button is clicked I am drawing the svg to a hidden canvas and then the png begins downloading from there.
I am using a link to multiple Adobe fonts for the styling of the wallpaper. The problem is, every time I attempt to download the PNG from mobile or a smaller window size, if I was using one of the adobe fonts, the font gets swapped.
The hidden canvas is width 1125px and height 2536px and I have the custom svg fit to match the size. I have little experience with Canvas so I am not sure what to do but my best guess is that the problem lies in the size of the canvas.
This is the code I have for my download. If you need more information please let me know but my goal here is to get this to work so that the png will be downloaded in high quality from any size window.
var btn = document.getElementById('myBtn');
var svg = document.getElementById('bg2');
var canvas = document.querySelector('canvas');
function triggerDownload (imgURI) {
var evt = new MouseEvent('click', {
view: window,
bubbles: false,
cancelable: true
});
if(document.getElementById("name").value=="null" || document.getElementById("name").value=="") {
var un = "MakeAGraphic";
} else {
var enteredName = document.getElementById("name").value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z ]/g, "");
var un = `${enteredName}_MakeAGraphic`
}
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.setAttribute('download', `${un}.png`);
a.setAttribute('href', imgURI);
a.setAttribute('target', '_blank');
a.dispatchEvent(evt);
}
btn.addEventListener('click', function () {
var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var data = (new XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(svg);
var DOMURL = window.URL || window.webkitURL || window;
var img = new Image();
var svgBlob = new Blob([data], {type: 'image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8'});
var url = DOMURL.createObjectURL(svgBlob);
img.onload = function () {
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
DOMURL.revokeObjectURL(url);
var imgURI = canvas
.toDataURL('image/png')
.replace('image/png', 'image/octet-stream');
triggerDownload(imgURI);
};
img.src = url;
});

How to Download and SVG element as an SVG file

Over the past few months, I have been working on this code that deals with ellipsoidal earth and just recently I have finished it. My professor now wants me to send him pictures of the diagrams I made as an SVG file. I know in Python you can put a few lines of code into your project to have it download the image, but I am unsure how it works in JavaScript. How can I do this in JavaScript, or is there another easier way?

Check out this demo: https://codepen.io/Alexander9111/pen/VwLaaPe?editors=1010
Code (modified from https://stackoverflow.com/a/19885344/9792594):
function downloadSVGasTextFile() {
const base64doc = btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(document.querySelector('svg').outerHTML)));
const a = document.createElement('a');
const e = new MouseEvent('click');
a.download = 'download.svg';
a.href = 'data:text/html;base64,' + base64doc;
a.dispatchEvent(e);
}
downloadSVGasTextFile();
You encode your svg as a 64bit string and then use that as the href of an anchor tag and then dispatch a click event to download the svg text file as download.svg
If you want to save an image, such as .png then you can first draw svg image into a cnavas then download that as .png,
UPDATE
I modified the answer and the demo to now include both download as text file .svg or download as image file .png https://codepen.io/Alexander9111/pen/VwLaaPe:
HTML:
<svg>
...
</svg>
<br/>
<button id="downloadPNG">Download .png</button>
<button id="downloadSVG">Download .svg</button>
JS:
function downloadSVGAsText() {
const svg = document.querySelector('svg');
const base64doc = btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(svg.outerHTML)));
const a = document.createElement('a');
const e = new MouseEvent('click');
a.download = 'download.svg';
a.href = 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,' + base64doc;
a.dispatchEvent(e);
}
function downloadSVGAsPNG(e){
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
const svg = document.querySelector('svg');
const base64doc = btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(svg.outerHTML)));
const w = parseInt(svg.getAttribute('width'));
const h = parseInt(svg.getAttribute('height'));
const img_to_download = document.createElement('img');
img_to_download.src = 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,' + base64doc;
console.log(w, h);
img_to_download.onload = function () {
canvas.setAttribute('width', w);
canvas.setAttribute('height', h);
const context = canvas.getContext("2d");
//context.clearRect(0, 0, w, h);
context.drawImage(img_to_download,0,0,w,h);
const dataURL = canvas.toDataURL('image/png');
if (window.navigator.msSaveBlob) {
window.navigator.msSaveBlob(canvas.msToBlob(), "download.png");
e.preventDefault();
} else {
const a = document.createElement('a');
const my_evt = new MouseEvent('click');
a.download = 'download.png';
a.href = dataURL;
a.dispatchEvent(my_evt);
}
//canvas.parentNode.removeChild(canvas);
}
}
const downloadSVG = document.querySelector('#downloadSVG');
downloadSVG.addEventListener('click', downloadSVGAsText);
const downloadPNG = document.querySelector('#downloadPNG');
downloadPNG.addEventListener('click', downloadSVGAsPNG);

Download Svg as png doesnt work on IE11

The svg d3 graph needs to be downloaded.I have used saveSvgAsPngJpgSvg to initiate download .The code works fine on all other browsers expect IE11.
Fiddle
I have tried :
svgAsDataUri(svg, {}, function(svg_uri) {
render_width=1000;
render_height=1000;
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.height = render_height;
canvas.width = render_width;
document.body.appendChild(canvas);
// Create an image and draw the SVG onto the canvas
var image = new Image;
image.onload = function() {
canvas.getContext('2d').drawImage(this, 0, 0, render_width, render_height);
};
image.src = svg_uri;
setTimeout(function(){//download_in_ie(canvas, 'filename' + '.png');
if (canvas.msToBlob) { //for IE
var blob = canvas.msToBlob();
window.navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, 'dicomimage.png');
}
}, 3000);
});
using msSaveBlob as suggested in the given link results to securityError
How can i achieve this?

Compress and upload multiple images [duplicate]

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

Resizing Image on client side and save to server [duplicate]

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