Image Compression before uploading

Question

Hello I am using input type as file and i want to compress the image and save the compressed image in a local storage using jquery.Can anyone help me out of this?

Anmol Chaudhary · Answer

U CAN USE THIS CODE OR Go throgh the link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5607396/compress-images-on-client-side-before-uploading http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29254321/compressing-and-saving-image-captured-to-localstorage http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2303690/resizing-an-image-in-an-html5-canvas // returns a function that calculates lanczos weight function lanczosCreate ( lobes ) { return function ( x ) { if ( x > lobes ) return 0 ; x *= Math . PI ; if ( Math . abs ( x ) 1e-16 ) return 1 ; var xx = x / lobes ; return Math . sin ( x ) * Math . sin ( xx ) / x / xx ; }; } // elem: canvas element img: image element sx: scaled width lobes: kernel radius function thumbnailer ( elem  img  sx  lobes ) { this . canvas = elem ; elem . width = img . width ; elem . height = img . height ; elem . style . display = none ; this . ctx = elem . getContext ( 2d ); this . ctx . drawImage ( img  0  0 ); this . img = img ; this . src = this . ctx . getImageData ( 0  0  img . width  img . height ); this . dest = { width : sx  height : Math . round ( img . height * sx / img . width ) }; this . dest . data = new Array ( this . dest . width * this . dest . height * 3 ); this . lanczos = lanczosCreate ( lobes ); this . ratio = img . width / sx ; this . rcp_ratio = 2 / this . ratio ; this . range2 = Math . ceil ( this . ratio * lobes / 2 ); this . cacheLanc = {}; this . center = {}; this . icenter = {}; setTimeout ( this . process1  0  this  0 ); } thumbnailer . prototype . process1 = function ( self  u ) { self . center . x = ( u + 0.5 ) * self . ratio ; self . icenter . x = Math . floor ( self . center . x ); for ( var v = 0 ; v self . dest . height ; v ++) { self . center . y = ( v + 0.5 ) * self . ratio ; self . icenter . y = Math . floor ( self . center . y ); var a  r  g  b ; a = r = g = b = 0 ; for ( var i = self . icenter . x - self . range2 ; i self . icenter . x + self . range2 ; i ++) { if ( i 0 || i >= self . src . width ) continue ; var f_x = Math . floor ( 1000 * Math . abs ( i - self . center . x )); if (! self . cacheLanc [ f_x ]) self . cacheLanc [ f_x ] = {}; for ( var j = self . icenter . y - self . range2 ; j self . icenter . y + self . range2 ; j ++) { if ( j 0 || j >= self . src . height ) continue ; var f_y = Math . floor ( 1000 * Math . abs ( j - self . center . y )); if ( self . cacheLanc [ f_x ][ f_y ] == undefined ) self . cacheLanc [ f_x ][ f_y ] = self . lanczos ( Math . sqrt ( Math . pow ( f_x * self . rcp_ratio  2 ) + Math . pow ( f_y * self . rcp_ratio  2 )) / 1000 ); weight = self . cacheLanc [ f_x ][ f_y ]; if ( weight > 0 ) { var idx = ( j * self . src . width + i ) * 4 ; a += weight ; r += weight * self . src . data [ idx ]; g += weight * self . src . data [ idx + 1 ]; b += weight * self . src . data [ idx + 2 ]; } } } var idx = ( v * self . dest . width + u ) * 3 ; self . dest . data [ idx ] = r / a ; self . dest . data [ idx + 1 ] = g / a ; self . dest . data [ idx + 2 ] = b / a ; } if (++ u self . dest . width ) setTimeout ( self . process1  0  self  u ); else setTimeout ( self . process2  0  self ); }; thumbnailer . prototype . process2 = function ( self ) { self . canvas . width = self . dest . width ; self . canvas . height = self . dest . height ; self . ctx . drawImage ( self . img  0  0  self . dest . width  self . dest . height ); self . src = self . ctx . getImageData ( 0  0  self . dest . width  self . dest . height ); var idx  idx2 ; for ( var i = 0 ; i self . dest . width ; i ++) { for ( var j = 0 ; j self . dest . height ; j ++) { idx = ( j * self . dest . width + i ) * 3 ; idx2 = ( j * self . dest . width + i ) * 4 ; self . src . data [ idx2 ] = self . dest . data [ idx ]; self . src . data [ idx2 + 1 ] = self . dest . data [ idx + 1 ]; self . src . data [ idx2 + 2 ] = self . dest . data [ idx + 2 ]; } } self . ctx . putImageData ( self . src  0  0 ); self . canvas . style . display = block ; }; ...with which you can produce results like these! so anyway here is a 'fixed' version of your example: img . onload = function () { var canvas = document . createElement ( canvas ); new thumbnailer ( canvas  img  188  3 ); //this produces lanczos3 // but feel free to raise it up to 8. Your client will appreciate // that the program makes full use of his machine. document . body . appendChild ( canvas ); };