How To Compress Image Using Java

Compression of image file is one of the important task when it comes to save the large number of image files. It saves lot of space if you could compress the images when it is necessary. This example demonstrates how to compress the the JPEG file and reduce the size.

ImageWriteParam class is mainly used for compression the images. It has two methods which is mostly used for changing the compression settings.
setCompressionQuality() method used for setting the quality of the compressed image the value between 0 to 1. A compression quality setting of 0.0 is most generically interpreted as “high compression is important,” while a setting of 1.0 is most generically interpreted as “high image quality is important.” Also we used method setCompressionMode() to set the quality of the compression.

Here is the list of methods that are available in the class ImageWriteParam,

1. protected boolean canOffsetTiles
2. protected boolean canWriteCompressed
3. protected boolean canWriteProgressive
4. protected boolean canWriteTiles
5. protected int compressionMode
6. protected float compressionQuality
7. protected String compressionType
8. protected String[] compressionTypes
9. protected Locale locale
10. protected Dimension[] preferredTileSizes
11. protected int progressiveMode
12. protected int tileGridXOffset
13. protected int tileGridYOffset
14. protected int tileHeight
15. protected boolean tilingSet

Lets look at the example which compress the given image and output the image with small in size. Lets try this example, post your comments.

CompressJPEGFileExample.ajav

package javabeat.net.core;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Iterator;

import javax.imageio.IIOImage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.imageio.ImageWriteParam;
import javax.imageio.ImageWriter;
import javax.imageio.stream.ImageOutputStream;

/**
 * Compress JPEG File Example
 *
 * @author Krishna
 *
 */
public class CompressJPEGFileExample {
	public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException{
		File imageFile = new File("Desert.jpg");
		File compressedImageFile = new File("compressed_file.jpg");

		InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(imageFile);
		OutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(compressedImageFile);

		float imageQuality = 0.3f;

		//Create the buffered image
		BufferedImage bufferedImage = ImageIO.read(inputStream);

		//Get image writers
		Iterator<ImageWriter> imageWriters = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName("jpg");

		if (!imageWriters.hasNext())
			throw new IllegalStateException("Writers Not Found!!");

		ImageWriter imageWriter = (ImageWriter) imageWriters.next();
		ImageOutputStream imageOutputStream = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(outputStream);
		imageWriter.setOutput(imageOutputStream);

		ImageWriteParam imageWriteParam = imageWriter.getDefaultWriteParam();

		//Set the compress quality metrics
		imageWriteParam.setCompressionMode(ImageWriteParam.MODE_EXPLICIT);
		imageWriteParam.setCompressionQuality(imageQuality);

		//Created image
		imageWriter.write(null, new IIOImage(bufferedImage, null, null), imageWriteParam);

		// close all streams
		inputStream.close();
		outputStream.close();
		imageOutputStream.close();
		imageWriter.dispose();
	}
}

I hope this tutorial helped you to understand how to compress a file using Java. There are various techniques to compress the image file, if you have used any other good techniques to compress a image files, please share with us here.