split-images-shadow

This is one fork and upgrade from "split-images", and I upgrade the dependency jimp from 0.6 to 0.16, which have different result when the image has rotation infomation.

What is it

split-images is a simple package that allows you to split an image to chunks the chunks are returned as an Array<Buffer> (Array of buffers) of the image type provided.

Supported Images

Image paths, urls and buffers can be used, supported image types are jpeg, png, bmp, tiff and gif.

npm

npm i split-images-shadow --save

Node versions

Node >= 7.10

Methods

imageToChunks(image,chunkSize)

Splits the image horizontaly depending of the chunkSize

• image can be a path, a url or a buffer
• chunkSize the height in pixels each chunk will be

returns Array<Buffer>

Examples

Read from a local file

const fs = require('fs');
const { imageToChunks } = require('split-images-shadow');

(async()=> {
try {
  const chunckSize = 1000;
  const chuncks = await imageToChunks('imgs/test.png',chunckSize);
  console.log('Number of chunks', chuncks.length);

  let i = 0;
  chuncks.forEach(c => {
    i++;
    fs.writeFileSync(`slice_${i}.png`,c);
  });
} catch (e) {
  console.log(e);
}

})();

Read from a url

const fs = require('fs');
const { imageToChunks } = require('split-images-shadow');

(async()=> {
try {
  const chunckSize = 1000;
  const chuncks = await imageToChunks('http://example.com/images/test.png',chunckSize);
  console.log('Number of chunks', chuncks.length);

  let i = 0;
  chuncks.forEach(c => {
    i++;
    fs.writeFileSync(`slice_${i}.png`,c);
  });
} catch (e) {
  console.log(e);
}

})();