Dimensions

Dimensions is a pure Ruby library for reading the width, height and rotation angle of GIF, PNG, JPEG and TIFF images.

Use the dimensions, width and height methods on the Dimensions module to measure image files:

require 'dimensions'

Dimensions.dimensions("upload_bird.jpg")  # => [300, 225]
Dimensions.width("upload_bird.jpg")       # => 300
Dimensions.height("upload_bird.jpg")      # => 225

Many cameras and smartphones set the EXIF orientation attribute for photos taken in portrait or landscape mode. The Dimensions library reads this attribute and swaps the width and height values automatically to accurately reflect how the image looks when rotated. You can use the angle method to check a JPEG image's orientation in degrees:

Dimensions.angle("upload_bird.jpg")       # => 0
Dimensions.angle("rotated.jpg")           # => 90

Reading dimensions from a stream

Pass an IO object to the Dimensions method to extend it with the Dimensions::IO module and transparently detect its dimensions and orientation as it is read. Once the IO has been sufficiently read, its width, height and angle methods will return non-nil values (assuming its contents are an image).

require 'dimensions'
require 'json'
require 'securerandom'

module Uploader
  def self.call(env)
    body = Dimensions(env["rack.input"])

    # Handle the upload
    token = SecureRandom.hex(20)
    path  = File.join(UPLOAD_PATH, token)
    File.open(path, "wb") { |file| file.write body.read }

    # Return the width and height as JSON
    [
      200,
      {"Content-Type" => "application/json"},
      [JSON.dump(
        "token"  => token,
        "width"  => body.width,
        "height" => body.height
      )]
    ]
  end
end

Version History

1.3.0 (November 26, 2013)

• Added support for calling #dimensions on a Dimensions-extended rewindable IO without first calling #read.

1.2.0 (April 25, 2012)

• Added support for measuring the dimensions of TIFF images.

1.1.0 (April 1, 2012)

• Fixed an issue where images with certain invalid orientation values would be improperly treated as having an angle of 270 degrees.
• Eliminated a message when loading Dimensions with warnings enabled.

1.0.0 (July 1, 2011)

• Initial release.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2012 Sam Stephenson

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