how to resize Image in java?

Question

Hello I have a QR code Image , and I want to resize it , when I try to resize it to a small image using this code , I always get a blury image , and the QR code is no longer valid when I scan it , but it works fine when I resize to a big sized images with the same code :

public BufferedImage getScaledInstance(BufferedImage img,
                                   int targetWidth,
                                   int targetHeight,
                                   Object hint,
                                   boolean higherQuality)
{
int type = (img.getTransparency() == Transparency.OPAQUE) ?
    BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB : BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB;
BufferedImage ret = (BufferedImage)img;
int w, h;
if (higherQuality) {
    // Use multi-step technique: start with original size, then
    // scale down in multiple passes with drawImage()
    // until the target size is reached
    w = img.getWidth();
    h = img.getHeight();
} else {
    // Use one-step technique: scale directly from original
    // size to target size with a single drawImage() call
    w = targetWidth;
    h = targetHeight;
}

do {
    if (higherQuality && w > targetWidth) {
        w /= 2;
        if (w < targetWidth) {
            w = targetWidth;
        }
    }

    if (higherQuality && h > targetHeight) {
        h /= 2;
        if (h < targetHeight) {
            h = targetHeight;
        }
    }

    BufferedImage tmp = new BufferedImage(w, h, type);
    Graphics2D g2 = tmp.createGraphics();
    g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, hint);
    //        g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_DITHERING, hint);
    g2.drawImage(ret, 0, 0, w, h, null);
    g2.dispose();

    ret = tmp;
} while (w != targetWidth || h != targetHeight);

return ret;
}

what is the problem , I don't exactly understand , please give me at least a hint , thank you

Answer 1

I wrote this class which i personally also use. I hope the code is straight forward.

import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.awt.image.CropImageFilter;
import java.awt.image.FilteredImageSource;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JComponent;


public class ImageScaler {

        private ImageIcon originalImage;
        private ImageIcon scaledImage;

        public ImageScaler(Image image) {
                this.originalImage = new ImageIcon(image);
        }

        public ImageScaler(String fileName) {
                originalImage = new ImageIcon(fileName);
        }

        public void createScaledImage(int size, ScalingDirection scalingDirection) {
                if (scalingDirection == ScalingDirection.HORIZONTAL) {
                        scaledImage = new ImageIcon(originalImage.getImage().getScaledInstance(size, -1, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH));
                } else {
                        scaledImage = new ImageIcon(originalImage.getImage().getScaledInstance(-1, size, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH));
                }       
        }

        public void createScaledImage(int size, ScalingDirection scalingDirection, int scale) {
                if (scalingDirection == ScalingDirection.HORIZONTAL) {
                        scaledImage = new ImageIcon(originalImage.getImage().getScaledInstance(size, -1, scale));
                } else {
                        scaledImage = new ImageIcon(originalImage.getImage().getScaledInstance(-1, size, scale));
                }
        }

        public void createScaledImage(int width, int height, ScaleType scaleType) {
                int imageWidth = originalImage.getImage().getWidth(null);
                int imageHeight = originalImage.getImage().getHeight(null);
                double originalImageRatio = imageWidth / (double) imageHeight;
                double scaledImageRatio = width / (double) height;

                if(scaleType == ScaleType.FIT) {
                        if(imageHeight - (Math.abs(imageWidth - width) / originalImageRatio) <= height) {
                                scaledImage = new ImageIcon(originalImage.getImage().getScaledInstance(width, -1, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH));
                        } else if(imageWidth - (Math.abs(imageHeight - height) * originalImageRatio) <= width) {
                                scaledImage = new ImageIcon(originalImage.getImage().getScaledInstance(-1, height, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH));
                        }
                } else if(scaleType == ScaleType.FILL) {
                        if(imageHeight - (Math.abs(imageWidth - width) / originalImageRatio) >= height) {
                                scaledImage = new ImageIcon(originalImage.getImage().getScaledInstance(width, -1, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH));
                                int thumbHeight = scaledImage.getImage().getHeight(null);

                                // Crop the image
                                scaledImage = new ImageIcon(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(new FilteredImageSource(scaledImage.getImage().getSource(), new CropImageFilter(0, (thumbHeight-height)/2, width, height))));
                        } else if(imageWidth - (Math.abs(imageHeight - height) * originalImageRatio) >= width) {
                                scaledImage = new ImageIcon(originalImage.getImage().getScaledInstance(-1, height, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH));
                                int thumbWidth = scaledImage.getImage().getWidth(null);

                                // Crop the image
                                scaledImage = new ImageIcon(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(new FilteredImageSource(scaledImage.getImage().getSource(), new CropImageFilter((thumbWidth-width)/2, 0, width, height))));
                        }               
                }
        }

        public void saveScaledImage(File file, ImageType imageType) {
                if (scaledImage != null) {
                        BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(scaledImage.getIconWidth(), scaledImage.getIconHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
                        Graphics g = bi.getGraphics();
                        g.drawImage(scaledImage.getImage(), 0, 0, null);
                        try {
                                ImageIO.write(bi, imageType.value(), file);
                        } catch (IOException ioe) {
                                System.out.println("Error occured saving scaled image");
                        }
                } else {
                        System.out.println("Scaled image has not yet been created");
                }
        }

        public void saveOriginalImage(File file, ImageType imageType) {
                if (originalImage != null) {
                        BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(originalImage.getIconWidth(), originalImage.getIconHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
                        Graphics g = bi.getGraphics();
                        g.drawImage(originalImage.getImage(), 0, 0, null);
                        try {
                                ImageIO.write(bi, imageType.value(), file);
                        } catch (IOException ioe) {
                                System.out.println("Error occured saving original image");
                        }
                } else {
                        System.out.println("Original image has not yet been created");
                }
        }

        // ENUMS
        public enum ScalingDirection {VERTICAL, HORIZONTAL};
        public enum ScaleType {FIT, FILL};
        public enum ImageType {
                IMAGE_JPEG ("jpeg"),
                IMAGE_JPG ("jpg"),
                IMAGE_PNG ("png");

                private String value = null;

                ImageType(String value) {
                        this.value = value;
                }

                String value() {
                        return value;
                }
        };
}