Monthly Archives: May 2014

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IIOMetadata Tutorial – Part 2 – Retrieving Image Metadata

In Part 1 of this tutorial, we went over some background related to the Java ImageIO subsystem and how one could retrieve information about the supported ImageReaders and ImageWriters. In this second part, we will look at how one goes about retrieving metadata from an image as it is read. All the code associated with […]

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IIOMetadata Tutorial – Part 1 – Background

The Java ImageIO subsystem provides convenient methods for Java-based programs to read and write bitmap images. One can load an image in any supported format and then get access to the image data as a BufferedImage, or one can create a BufferedImage, draw to it using a Graphics or Graphics2D, and then save the image […]

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Java Advanced Imaging Downloads

After quite a while away from it, I recently came back to dealing with graphics I/O in Java. At one level, things have gotten much easier in the time I was away – in particular, the ImageIO library is now part of the standard JRE. This means that, for the most part, you can count […]

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“Hidden” Eclipse Launch Configurations

Every once in a while I run into a situation in which I create a launch configuration in Eclipse and instead of having the name I expect, it has a “(1)” after it. For example, when I right click on a class named DumpImageIoPlugins and select Run as > Java Application, I expect a launch […]

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