Browser Image Compression

Javascript module to be run in the web browser for image compression.

Features

• You can use this module to compress jpeg and png image by reducing resolution or storage size before uploading to application server to save bandwidth.
• Multi-thread (web worker) non-blocking compression are supported through options.

Install

You can download imageCompression from the dist folder. Alternatively, you can install it via yarn or npm

npm install browser-image-compression --save
or
yarn add browser-image-compression

or use a CDN like delivrjs:

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/browser-image-compression@1.0.5/dist/browser-image-compression.js
or
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/browser-image-compression@latest/dist/browser-image-compression.js

How to use this module in your project?

Use as ES module

(can be used in framework like React, Angular, Vue etc)

(work with bundler like webpack and rollup)

import imageCompression from 'browser-image-compression';

or

In html file

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/browser-image-compression@latest/dist/browser-image-compression.js"></script>

API

Main function

// you should provide one of maxSizeMB, maxWidthOrHeight in the options
const options = { 
  maxSizeMB: number,          // (default: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY)
  maxWidthOrHeight: number,   // compressedFile will scale down by ratio to a point that width or height is smaller than maxWidthOrHeight (default: undefined)
  useWebWorker: boolean,      // optional, use multi-thread web worker, fallback to run in main-thread (default: true)
  maxIteration: number        // optional, max number of iteration to compress the image (default: 10)
}

imageCompression(file: File, options): Promise<File>

Helper function

• for advanced user only, most user won't need to use the helper functions

imageCompression.getDataUrlFromFile(file: File): Promise<base64 encoded string>
imageCompression.getFilefromDataUrl(dataUrl: string): Promise<File>
imageCompression.loadImage(url: string): Promise<HTMLImageElement>
imageCompression.drawImageInCanvas(img: HTMLImageElement): HTMLCanvasElement
imageCompression.drawFileInCanvas(file: File): Promise<[ImageBitmap | HTMLImageElement, HTMLCanvasElement]>
imageCompression.canvasToFile(canvas, fileType, fileName, fileLastModified[, quality]): Promise<File|Blob>
imageCompression.getExifOrientation(file: File): Promise<number> // based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/32490603/10395024

Usage

<input type="file" accept="image/*" onchange="handleImageUpload(event);">

async await syntax:

async function handleImageUpload(event) {

  const imageFile = event.target.files[0];
  console.log('originalFile instanceof Blob', imageFile instanceof Blob); // true
  console.log(`originalFile size ${imageFile.size / 1024 / 1024} MB`);

  var options = {
    maxSizeMB: 1,
    maxWidthOrHeight: 1920,
    useWebWorker: true
  }
  try {
    const compressedFile = await imageCompression(imageFile, options);
    console.log('compressedFile instanceof Blob', compressedFile instanceof Blob); // true
    console.log(`compressedFile size ${compressedFile.size / 1024 / 1024} MB`); // smaller than maxSizeMB

    await uploadToServer(compressedFile); // write your own logic
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }

}

Promise.then().catch() syntax:

function handleImageUpload(event) {

  var imageFile = event.target.files[0];
  console.log('originalFile instanceof Blob', imageFile instanceof Blob); // true
  console.log(`originalFile size ${imageFile.size / 1024 / 1024} MB`);

  var options = {
    maxSizeMB: 1,
    maxWidthOrHeight: 1920,
    useWebWorker: true
  }
  imageCompression(imageFile, options)
    .then(function (compressedFile) {
      console.log('compressedFile instanceof Blob', compressedFile instanceof Blob); // true
      console.log(`compressedFile size ${compressedFile.size / 1024 / 1024} MB`); // smaller than maxSizeMB

      return uploadToServer(compressedFile); // write your own logic
    })
    .catch(function (error) {
      console.log(error.message);
    });
}

Demo / Example

open https://donaldcwl.github.io/browser-image-compression/example/basic.html

or check the "example" folder in this repo

Browsers support

IE / Edge	Firefox	Chrome	Safari	Opera	Chrome for Android
IE10, IE11, Edge	last 2 versions	last 2 versions	last 2 versions	last 2 versions	last 2 versions

Contribution

1. fork the repo and git clone it
2. run npm run watch # it will watch code change in lib/ folder and generate js in dist/ folder
3. add/update code in lib/ folder
4. try the code by opening example/development.html which will load the js in dist/ folder
5. add/update test in test/ folder
6. npm run test
7. push to your forked repo on github
8. make a pull request to this repo