Reference – C API

Get width and height from an image file reading as few bytes as possible.

This is a fork of scardine/imsz that adds support for more file formats, but also breaks API compatibility in order to be more idiomatic Rust. It also provides a C library wrapper. For more information on how this started see the mentioned link.

The library itself has zero dependencies, but the example binary uses clap.

There is a simple example binary:

$ cargo run -q --example imsz testdata/image.gif
testdata/image.gif: GIF, 32 x 16

$ cargo run -q --example imsz -- --help
imsz 0.4.1
Paulo Scardine <paulo@scardine.com.br>, Mathias Panzenböck <grosser.meister.morti@gmx.net>

USAGE:
    imsz [FILES]...

ARGS:
    <FILES>...    

OPTIONS:
    -h, --help       Print help information
    -V, --version    Print version information

The relevant parts:

use imsz::imsz;

let info = imsz(filename)?;
println!("{}: {}, {} x {}", filename, info.format, info.width, info.height);
// testdata/image.gif: GIF, 32 x 16

// or for already opened files:
let info = imsz(File::open(filename)?);

// or for in memory buffers:
let info = imsz(b"\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n...");

// or for *anything* implementing Read and Seek:
use imsz::imsz_from_reader;

let mut file = BufReader::new(File::open(filename)?);
let info = imsz_from_reader(&mut file)?;

• AVIF
• BMP
• DDS
• DIB
• GIF
• HEIC/HEIF
• ICO
• ILBM
• JPEG
• JPEG 2000
• PCX
• PNG
• PSD
• OpenEXR
• QOI
• TGA
• TIFF
• VTF
• WEBP
• XCF

No guarantees of correct or complete implementation are made.

• scardine/imsz – original Rust library from which this is a fork
• panzi/get_image_size.py – a very similar library in pure Python
• StackOverflow answer – the start of it all