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Reading JPEG Thumbnails from EXIF

For next MBS Xojo Plugins we add new methods to JPEGImporterMBS class to read thumbnail from EXIF data in a JPEG file. This allows you to very quickly get a thumbnail image. We support ScaleFactor property for some years now, which allows you to read a JPEG scaled down and get only the pixel data decompressed you need. We use this often for a preview. The time differences may be for a test image here: 5.6 milliseconds for the thumbnail at 160x120, 64 milliseconds for a preview at 504x378 and 276 milliseconds for full image at 4032x3024 pixels. So in your projects, if you need to show JPEGs quickly, you may first check for a thumbnail, then for a scaled down preview and only if user double click the entry load the whole picture.

Here some sample code:

Dim file As FolderItem = SpecialFolder.Desktop.Child("test.jpg") // first read header and check for thumbnail in EXIF Dim j As New JPEGImporterMBS j.file = file j.ReadExifData = True If j.ReadHeader Then Dim thumbnailData As String = j.ExifThumbnail If thumbnailData.LenB > 0 Then thumbnailPic = picture.FromData(thumbnailData) End If // now read a scaled down image Dim factor As Double = Min( j.Height / 300.0, j.Width / 300.0) If factor >= 8.0 Then j.ScaleFactor = 8 Elseif factor >= 4.0 Then j.ScaleFactor = 4 Else j.ScaleFactor = 2 End If j.Import Pic2 = j.Picture // finally read full image j.ScaleFactor = 0 j.Import Pic3 = j.Picture Else MsgBox j.ErrorMessage End If
Coming soon for MBS Plugins version 20.1pr5. See also CGImageSourceMBS class for MacOS to get quickly thumbnails for various image formats.
23 02 20 - 10:54