As far as I know there is not an easy way to do this since Javascript/JQuery does not have access to the local filesystem. There are some new features in html 5 that allows you to check certain meta data such as file size but I'm not sure if you can actually get the image dimensions.
$.validator.addMethod('imagedim', function(value, element, param) {
var _URL = window.URL;
var img;
if ((element = this.files[0])) {
img = new Image();
img.onload = function () {
console.log("Width:" + this.width + " Height: " + this.height);//this will give you image width and height and you can easily validate here....
return this.width >= param
};
img.src = _URL.createObjectURL(element);
}
});
Here is a pure JavaScript example of picking an image file, displaying it, looping through the image properties, and then re-sizing the image from the canvas into an IMG tag and explicitly setting the re-sized image type to jpeg.
If you right click the top image, in the canvas tag, and choose Save File As, it will default to a PNG format. If you right click, and Save File as the lower image, it will default to a JPEG format. Any file over 400px in width is reduced to 400px in width, and a height proportional to the original file.
<script>
window.picUpload = function(frmData) {
console.log("picUpload ran: " + frmData);
var allObjtProperties = '';
for (objProprty in frmData) {
console.log(objProprty + " : " + frmData[objProprty]);
allObjtProperties = allObjtProperties + "<span>" + objProprty + ": " + frmData[objProprty] + ", </span>";
};
document.getElementById('allImgProperties').innerHTML = allObjtProperties;
var cnvs=document.getElementById("cnvsForFormat");
console.log("cnvs: " + cnvs);
var ctx=cnvs.getContext("2d");
var img = new Image;
img.src = URL.createObjectURL(frmData);
console.log('img: ' + img);
img.onload = function() {
var picWidth = this.width;
var picHeight = this.height;
var wdthHghtRatio = picHeight/picWidth;
console.log('wdthHghtRatio: ' + wdthHghtRatio);
if (Number(picWidth) > 400) {
var newHeight = Math.round(Number(400) * wdthHghtRatio);
} else {
return false;
};
document.getElementById('cnvsForFormat').height = newHeight;
console.log('width: 400 h: ' + newHeight);
//You must change the width and height settings in order to decrease the image size, but
//it needs to be proportional to the original dimensions.
console.log('This is BEFORE the DRAW IMAGE');
ctx.drawImage(img,0,0, 400, newHeight);
console.log('THIS IS AFTER THE DRAW IMAGE!');
//Even if original image is jpeg, getting data out of the canvas will default to png if not specified
var canvasToDtaUrl = cnvs.toDataURL("image/jpeg");
//The type and size of the image in this new IMG tag will be JPEG, and possibly much smaller in size
document.getElementById('imgTwoForJPG').innerHTML = "<img src='" + canvasToDtaUrl + "'>";
};
};
</script>
So I started experimenting with the different things that FileReader API had to offer and could create an IMG tag with a DATA URL.
Drawback: It doesn't work on mobile phones, but it works fine on Google Chrome.
$('input').change(function() {
var fr = new FileReader;
fr.onload = function() {
var img = new Image;
img.onload = function() {
//I loaded the image and have complete control over all attributes, like width and src, which is the purpose of filereader.
$.ajax({url: img.src, async: false, success: function(result){
$("#result").html("READING IMAGE, PLEASE WAIT...")
$("#result").html("<img src='" + img.src + "' />");
console.log("Finished reading Image");
}});
};
img.src = fr.result;
};
fr.readAsDataURL(this.files[0]);
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="file" accept="image/*" capture="camera">
<div id='result'>Please choose a file to view it. <br/>(Tested successfully on Chrome - 100% SUCCESS RATE)</div>