Automatic Image Orientation

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Automatic Image Orientation

The EXIF (exchangeable image file format) standard specifies an Orientation tag that can be embedded in images, and is usually set in accordance with the reading from a gravity sensor or accelerometer in digital cameras and smartphones. This enables you to take a picture with your camera sideways or upside-down, and stand a reasonable chance of having it display properly on your computer.

By default, Kraken.io API strips away the Orientation tag, as the most common value is 1 (which represents Top-Left), which means that the image is already correctly oriented.

It is useful, however, to correctly orient the image without relying on the viewer application to correctly interpret the Orientation value, so that it is suitable for viewing.

Kraken.io's "auto_orient": true flag will do just that. It will perform a lossless rotation of the JPEG image such that it is suitable for viewing, and subsequently strip the now-redundant Orientation metadata.

The resulting re-oriented image will then be optimized using the mode you have selected (either lossless or lossy).

When used together with "preserve_meta": ["orientation"], the "new" orientation will be preserved, so the value will always be "1". In other words, it is no longer useful to preserve the orientation when using our "auto_orient": true feature.

{
  "auth": {
      "api_key": "your_api_key",
      "api_secret": "your_api_secret"
  },
  "url": "https://example.com/image.png",
  "wait": true,
  "lossy": true,
  "auto_orient": true
}

<?php

require_once("Kraken.php");

$kraken = new Kraken("your_api_key", "your_api_secret");

$params = array(
    "url" => "https://example.com/image.png",
    "wait" => true,
    "lossy" => true,
    "auto_orient" => true
);

$data = $kraken->url($params);

if ($data["success"]) {
    echo "Success. Optimized image URL: " . $data["kraked_url"];
} else {
    echo "Fail. Error message: " . $data["message"];
}

var Kraken = require("kraken");

var kraken = new Kraken({
    "api_key": "your_api_key",
    "api_secret": "your_api_secret"
});

var params = {
    url: "https://example.com/image.png",
    wait: true,
    lossy: true,
    auto_orient: true
};

kraken.url(params, function(status) {
    if (status.success) {
        console.log("Success. Optimized image URL: %s", status.kraked_url);
    } else {
        console.log("Fail. Error message: %s", status.message);
    }
});

require 'rubygems'
require 'kraken-io'

kraken = Kraken::API.new(
    :api_key => 'your_api_key',
    :api_secret => 'your_api_secret'
)

params = {
    :wait => true,
    :lossy => true,
    :auto_orient => true
}

data = kraken.url('https://example.com/image.png', params)

if data.success
    puts 'Success! Optimized image URL: ' + data.kraked_url
else
    puts 'Fail. Error message: ' + data.message
end

package main

import (
    "log"
    "github.com/kraken-io/kraken-go"
)

func main() {
    kr, err := kraken.New("your_api_key", "your_api_secret")

    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    params := map[string]interface {} {
        "url": "https://example.com/image.png"
        "wait": true,
        "lossy": true,
        "auto_orient": true
    }

    data, err := kr.URL(params)

    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    if data["success"] != true {
        log.Println("Failed, error message ", data["message"])
    } else {
        log.Println("Success, Optimized image URL: ", data["kraked_url"])
    }
}

using Kraken;
using Kraken.Http;
using Kraken.Model;

var connection = Connection.Create("your_api_key", "your_api_secret");
var client = new Client(connection);
var response = client.OptimizeWait(
    new OptimizeWaitRequest(new Uri("https://example.com/image.png"))
    {
        Lossy = true,
        AutoOrient = true
    }
);

if (response.Result.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) {
    var url = response.Result.Body.KrakedUrl;
}

from krakenio import Client

api = Client('your_api_key', 'your_api_secret')

data = {
    'wait': True,
    'lossy': True,
    'auto_orient': True
}

result = api.url('https://example.com/image.png', data);

if result.get('success'):
    print(result.get('kraked_url'))
else:
    print(result.get('message'))