I have a TIFF image that has been read in to my application and is stored in a BufferedImage object. How can I determine the horizontal and vertical DPI of the image using the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) APIs? I have been looking around and not been able to find a straight forward way to accomplish this.
Answer
Here's a full example extracting DPI (well, pixels per mm, really) using the standard ImageIO API and the standard metadata format. Complexity, here we come... :-P
public class DPITest {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
File input = new File(args[0]);
ImageInputStream stream = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(input);
Iterator<ImageReader> readers = ImageIO.getImageReaders(stream);
if (readers.hasNext()) {
ImageReader reader = readers.next();
reader.setInput(stream);
IIOMetadata metadata = reader.getImageMetadata(0);
IIOMetadataNode standardTree = (IIOMetadataNode) metadata.getAsTree(IIOMetadataFormatImpl.standardMetadataFormatName);
IIOMetadataNode dimension = (IIOMetadataNode) standardTree.getElementsByTagName("Dimension").item(0);
float horizontalPixelSizeMM = getPixelSizeMM(dimension, "HorizontalPixelSize");
float verticalPixelSizeMM = getPixelSizeMM(dimension, "VerticalPixelSize");
// TODO: Convert pixelsPerMM to DPI left as an exercise to the reader.. ;-)
System.err.println("horizontalPixelSizeMM: " + horizontalPixelSizeMM);
System.err.println("verticalPixelSizeMM: " + verticalPixelSizeMM);
}
else {
System.err.printf("Could not read %s\n", input);
}
}
private static float getPixelSizeMM(final IIOMetadataNode dimension, final String elementName) {
// NOTE: The standard metadata format has defined dimension to pixels per millimeters, not DPI...
NodeList pixelSizes = dimension.getElementsByTagName(elementName);
IIOMetadataNode pixelSize = pixelSizes.getLength() > 0 ? (IIOMetadataNode) pixelSizes.item(0) : null;
return pixelSize != null ? Float.parseFloat(pixelSize.getAttribute("value")) : -1;
}
}
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