Getting Image Dimensions Without Reading the Entire File

Getting image dimensions without reading the entire file

Your best bet as always is to find a well tested library. However, you said that is difficult, so here is some dodgy largely untested code that should work for a fair number of cases:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;

namespace ImageDimensions
{
    public static class ImageHelper
    {
        const string errorMessage = "Could not recognize image format.";

        private static Dictionary<byte[], Func<BinaryReader, Size>> imageFormatDecoders = new Dictionary<byte[], Func<BinaryReader, Size>>()
        {
            { new byte[]{ 0x42, 0x4D }, DecodeBitmap},
            { new byte[]{ 0x47, 0x49, 0x46, 0x38, 0x37, 0x61 }, DecodeGif },
            { new byte[]{ 0x47, 0x49, 0x46, 0x38, 0x39, 0x61 }, DecodeGif },
            { new byte[]{ 0x89, 0x50, 0x4E, 0x47, 0x0D, 0x0A, 0x1A, 0x0A }, DecodePng },
            { new byte[]{ 0xff, 0xd8 }, DecodeJfif },
        };

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the dimensions of an image.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="path">The path of the image to get the dimensions of.</param>
        /// <returns>The dimensions of the specified image.</returns>
        /// <exception cref="ArgumentException">The image was of an unrecognized format.</exception>
        public static Size GetDimensions(string path)
        {
            using (BinaryReader binaryReader = new BinaryReader(File.OpenRead(path)))
            {
                try
                {
                    return GetDimensions(binaryReader);
                }
                catch (ArgumentException e)
                {
                    if (e.Message.StartsWith(errorMessage))
                    {
                        throw new ArgumentException(errorMessage, "path", e);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        throw e;
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the dimensions of an image.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="path">The path of the image to get the dimensions of.</param>
        /// <returns>The dimensions of the specified image.</returns>
        /// <exception cref="ArgumentException">The image was of an unrecognized format.</exception>    
        public static Size GetDimensions(BinaryReader binaryReader)
        {
            int maxMagicBytesLength = imageFormatDecoders.Keys.OrderByDescending(x => x.Length).First().Length;

            byte[] magicBytes = new byte[maxMagicBytesLength];

            for (int i = 0; i < maxMagicBytesLength; i += 1)
            {
                magicBytes[i] = binaryReader.ReadByte();

                foreach(var kvPair in imageFormatDecoders)
                {
                    if (magicBytes.StartsWith(kvPair.Key))
                    {
                        return kvPair.Value(binaryReader);
                    }
                }
            }

            throw new ArgumentException(errorMessage, "binaryReader");
        }

        private static bool StartsWith(this byte[] thisBytes, byte[] thatBytes)
        {
            for(int i = 0; i < thatBytes.Length; i+= 1)
            {
                if (thisBytes[i] != thatBytes[i])
                {
                    return false;
                }
            }
            return true;
        }

        private static short ReadLittleEndianInt16(this BinaryReader binaryReader)
        {
            byte[] bytes = new byte[sizeof(short)];
            for (int i = 0; i < sizeof(short); i += 1)
            {
                bytes[sizeof(short) - 1 - i] = binaryReader.ReadByte();
            }
            return BitConverter.ToInt16(bytes, 0);
        }

        private static int ReadLittleEndianInt32(this BinaryReader binaryReader)
        {
            byte[] bytes = new byte[sizeof(int)];
            for (int i = 0; i < sizeof(int); i += 1)
            {
                bytes[sizeof(int) - 1 - i] = binaryReader.ReadByte();
            }
            return BitConverter.ToInt32(bytes, 0);
        }

        private static Size DecodeBitmap(BinaryReader binaryReader)
        {
            binaryReader.ReadBytes(16);
            int width = binaryReader.ReadInt32();
            int height = binaryReader.ReadInt32();
            return new Size(width, height);
        }

        private static Size DecodeGif(BinaryReader binaryReader)
        {
            int width = binaryReader.ReadInt16();
            int height = binaryReader.ReadInt16();
            return new Size(width, height);
        }

        private static Size DecodePng(BinaryReader binaryReader)
        {
            binaryReader.ReadBytes(8);
            int width = binaryReader.ReadLittleEndianInt32();
            int height = binaryReader.ReadLittleEndianInt32();
            return new Size(width, height);
        }

        private static Size DecodeJfif(BinaryReader binaryReader)
        {
            while (binaryReader.ReadByte() == 0xff)
            {
                byte marker = binaryReader.ReadByte();
                short chunkLength = binaryReader.ReadLittleEndianInt16();

                if (marker == 0xc0)
                {
                    binaryReader.ReadByte();

                    int height = binaryReader.ReadLittleEndianInt16();
                    int width = binaryReader.ReadLittleEndianInt16();
                    return new Size(width, height);
                }

                binaryReader.ReadBytes(chunkLength - 2);
            }

            throw new ArgumentException(errorMessage);
        }
    }
}

Hopefully the code is fairly obvious. To add a new file format you add it to imageFormatDecoders with the key being an array of the "magic bits" which appear at the beginning of every file of the given format and the value being a function which extracts the size from the stream. Most formats are simple enough, the only real stinker is jpeg.

Obtain image width and height without loading image in .NET?

Check this SO question: Getting image dimensions without reading the entire file

This shows you how to extract this information from the image header without reading the entire file. Usually, the image files contain metadata at the start containing width and height in addition to other data, so that will be the quickest way of retrieving this information.

Java/ImageIO getting image dimensions without reading the entire file?

try(ImageInputStream in = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(resourceFile)){
    final Iterator<ImageReader> readers = ImageIO.getImageReaders(in);
    if (readers.hasNext()) {
        ImageReader reader = readers.next();
        try {
            reader.setInput(in);
            return new Dimension(reader.getWidth(0), reader.getHeight(0));
        } finally {
            reader.dispose();
        }
    }
} 

Thanks to sfussenegger for the suggestion

How to get dimensions of image without loading the image

You have a complete article and working code in the following link (CodeProject).

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35978/Reading-Image-Headers-to-Get-Width-and-Height

He is reading the headers information to get the dimensions of the image. Performance looks good.

Get Image size WITHOUT loading image into memory

As the comments allude, PIL does not load the image into memory when calling .open. Looking at the docs of PIL 1.1.7, the docstring for .open says:

def open(fp, mode="r"):
    "Open an image file, without loading the raster data"

There are a few file operations in the source like:

 ...
 prefix = fp.read(16)
 ...
 fp.seek(0)
 ...

but these hardly constitute reading the whole file. In fact .open simply returns a file object and the filename on success. In addition the docs say:

open(file, mode=”r”)

Opens and identifies the given image file.

This is a lazy operation; this function identifies the file, but the actual image data is not read from the file until you try to process the data (or call the load method).

Digging deeper, we see that .open calls _open which is a image-format specific overload. Each of the implementations to _open can be found in a new file, eg. .jpeg files are in JpegImagePlugin.py. Let's look at that one in depth.

Here things seem to get a bit tricky, in it there is an infinite loop that gets broken out of when the jpeg marker is found:

    while True:

        s = s + self.fp.read(1)
        i = i16(s)

        if i in MARKER:
            name, description, handler = MARKER[i]
            # print hex(i), name, description
            if handler is not None:
                handler(self, i)
            if i == 0xFFDA: # start of scan
                rawmode = self.mode
                if self.mode == "CMYK":
                    rawmode = "CMYK;I" # assume adobe conventions
                self.tile = [("jpeg", (0,0) + self.size, 0, (rawmode, ""))]
                # self.__offset = self.fp.tell()
                break
            s = self.fp.read(1)
        elif i == 0 or i == 65535:
            # padded marker or junk; move on
            s = "\xff"
        else:
            raise SyntaxError("no marker found")

Which looks like it could read the whole file if it was malformed. If it reads the info marker OK however, it should break out early. The function handler ultimately sets self.size which are the dimensions of the image.

Getting a bitmap's dimensions in Android without reading the entire file

You are right to use inJustDecodeBounds. Set it to true and make sure to include Options in decode. This just reads the image size.

There is no need to read a stream. Just specify the path in the decode.

BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
BitmapFactory.decodeFile(<pathName>, options);
int imageHeight = options.outHeight;
int imageWidth = options.outWidth;

Using WPF Imaging classes - Getting image dimensions without reading the entire file

This should do it:

var bitmapFrame = BitmapFrame.Create(new Uri(@"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Pictures\Sample Pictures\Winter.jpg"), BitmapCreateOptions.DelayCreation, BitmapCacheOption.None);
var width = bitmapFrame.PixelWidth;
var height = bitmapFrame.PixelHeight;

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