How to create a BMP file from raw byte[] in Java

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Silfverstrom picture Silfverstrom · Jul 28, 2009 · Viewed 14.1k times · Source

I have a C++ application which communicates with a camera and fetches raw image-data. I then have a Byte[] in C++, which i want to send to Java with JNI.

However, i need to convert the raw Byte[] to an real file format(.bmp was my first choice). I can easily do this if i write it from C++ to an file on the hard-drive, using BITMAPFILEINFO and BITMAPHEADERINFO, but i do not know how one would go about sending the entire-format to Java.

Then i thought about sending only the raw byte[] data using JNI and then converting it to .bmp, but i can't seem to find any good library for doing this in Java.

What would be my best choice? Converting the image in C++ and then sending it using JNI or send the RAW data to Java and then convert it to .bmp? How would i easiest achieve this?

Answer

Stroboskop picture Stroboskop · Jul 28, 2009

It's just two lines in Java 1.5:

BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read( new ByteArrayInputStream( byteArray ) );
ImageIO.write(image, "BMP", new File("filename.bmp"));

Java (on Windows) knows how to export jpg, png and bmp as far as i know.

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