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Large Image resizing libraries

Does anyone know of any good image resizing libraries that will handling resizing large images(~7573 x ~9485). Something that is fast and doesn't chew to much memory would be great. At the moment I am using IrfanView and just shell invoking it with arguments but I would like to find something that integrates into .net a bit more. Than...

Converting MS Access "OLE Objects" back to plain JPEGs - best way?

Background: We have an old (but business-critical) SQL Server database with an MS Access ADP front-end; this was originally upsized to SQL Server from a series of Access databases. This database tracks hazardous materials for our customers, and stores a large number of images. These images are inserted from MS Access, and get put into t...

Online tool for generating mathematical equation image files

I'm looking for an online tool that will let me create a gif or png like this one: Some kind of LaTex online service, with friendly examples? ...

Pulling in a dynamic image in a control based on a url using C# and ASP.net

I know this is a dumb question. For some reason my mind is blank on this. Any ideas? Sorry should have been more clear. Using a HtmlGenericControl to pull in link description as well as image. private void InternalCreateChildControls() { if (this.DataItem != null && this.Relationships.Count > 0) { ...

Parse DICOM files in native Python

What is the simplest and most-pythonic way to parse a DICOM file? A native Python implementation without the use of non-Python libraries would be much preferred. DICOM is the standard file format in digital medical imaging (look here for more information). There are some C/C++ libraries that support reading (a subset) of DICOM files. ...

How do you read an image in Java when Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit() throws an AWTError?

I am reading image files in Java using java.awt.Image img = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(filePath); On some systems this doesn't work, it instead throws an AWTError complaining about sun/awt/motif/MToolkit. How else can you create a java.awt.Image object from an image file? ...

Robust and fast checksum algorithm?

Which checksum algorithm can you recommend in the following use case? I want to generate checksums of small JPEG files (~8 kB each) to check if the content changed. Using the filesystem's date modified is unfortunately not an option. The checksum need not be cryptographically strong but it should robustly indicate changes of any size. ...

Turn an array of pixels into an Image object with Java's ImageIO?

I'm currently turning an array of pixel values (originally created with a java.awt.image.PixelGrabber object) into an Image object using the following code: public Image getImageFromArray(int[] pixels, int width, int height) { MemoryImageSource mis = new MemoryImageSource(width, height, pixels, 0, width); Toolkit tk = Toolkit.ge...

mobile page: dynamically created image sporadic loading

i have a page for a small mobile site that has an image that has its src value set via a getImage.aspx method, wherein an image is dynamically built and returned to the image tag. Most of the time it works great. However, there are moments where the image just doesnt load on the first shot. Hitting refresh helps most of the time, but I'd...

Shape recognition algorithm(s)

Can anyone point me to a shape recognition algorithm, preferably in C#/Java but other languages are fine too. ...

How to force a web browser NOT to cache images

Background I am writing and using a very simple CGI-based (Perl) content management tool for two pro-bono websites. It provides the website administrator with HTML forms for events where they fill the fields (date, place, title, description, links, etc.) and save it. On that form I allow the administrator to upload an image related to t...

Dynamically change an image in a Crystal Report at runtime

I'm using the Crystal Reports included with VisualStudio 2005. I would like to change the image that is displayed on the report at runtime ideally by building a path to the image file and then have that image displayed on the report. Has anyone been able to accomplish this with this version of Crystal Reports? ...

Tag images in the image itself? HOW-TO

How to tag images in the image itself in a web page? I know Taggify, but... is there other options? Orkut also does it to tag people faces... How is it done? Anyone knows any public framework that is able to do it? See a sample bellow from Taggify: ...

How do I make ImageMagick talk to Ghostscript

I am on Windows XP. I am using ImageMagick (MagickNet) to convert PDF's to TIF's. My problem is that when I load a PDF in the MagicNet.Image object, it doesn't throw an error, but when I look at the properties, it is obvious it didn't load the PDF (it doesn't contain any data). My guess is that ImageMagick isn't talking to Ghostscri...

Where can one find free software icons / images?

This may not be directly related to programming, but I always find it hard to get quality icons that can be used for software. I currently have the need for some type of "green checkmark image", and I always seem to be looking for print, save, delete types of icons... Anybody have good resources? Note: I rather not be stealing someone...

How to best serialize a java.awt.Image?

I have a Serializable object which is supposed to hold a java.awt.Image as its member. How should I go about serializing it? (Edited from a not so clear first version, sorry.) ...

Best way to cache resized images using PHP and MySQL

What would be the best practice way to handle the caching of images using PHP. The filename is currently stored in a MySQL database which is renamed to a GUID on upload, along with the original filename and alt tag. When the image is put into the HTML pages it is done so using a url such as '/images/get/200x200/{guid}.jpg which is rewr...

Image Recognition

I'd like to do some work with the nitty-gritties of computer imaging. I'm looking for a way to read single pixels of data, analyze them programatically, and change them. What is the best language to use for this (Python, c++, Java...)? What is the best fileformat? I don't want any super fancy software/APIs... I'm looking for the bare...

How to get the RGB values for a pixel on an image on the iphone

I am writing an iPhone application and need to essentially implement something equivalent to the 'eyedropper' tool in photoshop, where you can touch a point on the image and capture the RGB values for the pixel in question to determine and match its color. Getting the UIImage is the easy part, but is there a way to convert the UIImage d...

Favorite image file format for 2d sprites

What is your favorite, lossless image format for games (namely 2d games)? And why? Some things to take into consideration are size on disk, overhead for converting to a usable format, and features of the format (ie alpha support). There is no best answer, but be sure to back yours up the best you can! ...