I need to include an image in a vcard file. The image is supposed to be in binary format. I create the image data as follows:
NSData *imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation([UIImage imageNamed:#"Pic1"], 1.0);
I have unsuccessfully tried encoding using the following 2 methods:
vcardString = [vcardString stringByAppendingFormat:#"PHOTO;ENCODING=b;TYPE=JPEG:%#\n", [imageData base64EncodedString]];
AND
vcardString = [vcardString stringByAppendingFormat:#"PHOTO;ENCODING=b;TYPE=JPEG:%#\n", [imageData description]];
Any advice on how to get the image data properly encoded to binary would be appreciated. Thanks
According to this blog entry I found (which points to this spec), it looks like the second form of what you're trying to do should work.
Change your ENCODING=b to ENCODING=BASE64 and see if that makes the difference.
OS X v10.11 and iOS 9 introduces CNContactVCardSerialization which greatly simplifies embedding images in a VCard.
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I have seen some example codes, these code are creating QR codes froms Text (below is the code).can we generate QR codes from other data also (like Image)?
NSString *code = #"1001012023034";
Barcode *barcode = [[Barcode alloc] init];
self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[barcode setupQRCode:code];
self.imageView.image = barcode.qRBarcode;
My question is if we use Image instead of string data then is it possible?
Yes, It's Possible. There are two Best Libraries available :
1) For Encoding : QR-Code-Encoder-for-Objective-C
2) For Decoding : ZBar bar code reader
GoodLuck.
QR codes are pretty limited in terms of data storage, limited to a few kb - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Storage for storage sizes. As such, you won't be able to put an image in there. What you CAN do, however, is upload the image somewhere and encode a link to that image instead.
I am converting image to NSdata using UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 1.0) and then encoding it to base64 using base64 helper class
NSString *imageOne = [self encodeBase64WithData:[imageDict objectForKey:#"ImageOne"]];
and finally sending it to server using post method as json parameter and in server side using php method to decode it.
/* encode & write data (binary) */
$ifp = fopen($imageNameWithPath, "wb" );
fwrite($ifp, base64_decode($base64ImageString));
fclose($ifp);
After decoding it, I am saving the file as jpeg image and the file is created with proper size and extension but problem is that when I open it, I get the DIMENSION OF IMAGE as 0X0 ..(problem is here)
Server side script is correct as our android developer is also sending base64string and the image is saved as jpeg with proper size and dimension.
This problem is only from iphone side when sending to server for decoding. I have decoded the image using my base64 helper class and it works fine on my iPhone device.
UIImageView *viewImage = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageWithData: [self decodeBase64WithString:[registerDataDict objectForKey:#"imageOne"]]]];
[self.view addSubview:viewImage];
Is the process followed by me correct on the device or do I need to change something? Help would be appreciated.
There are variants on the extra chars used to get to the 65 needed for base64 encoding (26 uppercase + 26 lowercase + 10 digits = 62), and different encoders may use a different subset. PHP is expecting them to be ['+', '/', '='], your application may be using something like ['-', '_', '='].
Once you figure out what the mapping is you can use str_replace before the decode in php.
See the wikipedia page on base64 or the php documentation for base64_decode for more info.
I'm successfully using this with several OAuth providers: Base64Transcoder.c It's a C class, you can easily turn it into a Objective-C class if you like.
I'm encoding like this:
char base64Result[32];
size_t theResultLength = 32;
[Base64Transcoder base64EncodeData:digest digestLength:CC_SHA1_DIGEST_LENGTH base64Result:base64Result resultLength:&theResultLength];
NSData *theData = [NSData dataWithBytes:base64Result length:theResultLength];
NSString *base64EncodedResult = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:theData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
Hmm well, I turned the C function base64EncodeData of the original class into an Objective-C method but you get the idea.
How can I get the texts presented on an image ?
Description : "I am developing one application which needs to get the text presented on an Image and show the text in an another view after putting the texts in to some frames."
EDIT : From this I'm getting some Values and also the ".png" but the characters I am getting is like ASCII value or something.
UIImage*img=[UIImage imageNamed:#"btn_reset.png"];
NSData *dataObj = UIImagePNGRepresentation(img);
NSString*str= [[NSString alloc] initWithData:dataObj encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
printf("Image is %s",[str UTF8String]);
Any tutorial/link/solution would be very helpful.
Thank You !
I couldn't understand the question clearly, but I think you are referring to OCR.
One of the main open-source lib for this is: Tesseract
Some one has ported this lib for ios. You can get the code from: https://github.com/rcarlsen/Pocket-OCR/
you might get solution from following link:
Is there any iphone Class that converts images to text format?
If you just want to print the string
UIImage*img=[UIImage imageNamed:#"btn_reset.png"];
NSData *dataObj = UIImagePNGRepresentation(img);
NSString*str= [[NSString alloc] initWithData:dataObj encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
NSLog("Image is %#",str);
If you still dont get it change the encoding
I have some image data (jpeg) I want to send from my iPhone app to my webservice. In order to do this, I'm using the NSData from the image and converting it into a string which will be placed in my JSON.
Currently, I'm doing this:
NSString *secondString = [[NSString alloc] initWithBytes:[result bytes]
length:[result length]
encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
Where result is of type NSData. However, secondString appears to be null even though result length returns a real value (like 14189). I used this method since result is raw data and not null-terminated.
Am I doing something wrong? I've used this code in other areas and it seems to work fine (but those areas I'm currently using it involve text not image data).
TIA.
For binary data, better to encode it using Base64 encoding then decode it in you webservice. I use NSData+Base64 class downloaded from here, this reference was also taken from Stackoverflow, an answer made by #Ken (Thanks Ken!).
You are not converting the data to a string. You are attempting to interpret it as a UTF-8 encoded string, which will fail unless the data really is a UTF-8 encoded string. Your best bet is to encode it somehow, perhaps with Base64 as Manny suggests, and then decode it again on the server.
I am aware this question has been asked several times, but I was unable to find a definate answer that would best fit my situation.
I want the ability to have the user select an image from the library, and then that image is converted to an NSData type. I then have a requirement to call a .NET C# webservice via a HTTP get so ideally I need the resulting string to be UTF8 encoded.
This is what I have so far:
NSData *dataObj = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(selectedImage, 1.0);
[picker dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
NSString *content = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:dataObj encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(#"%#", content);
The NSLog statement simply produces output as:
2009-11-29 14:13:33.937 TestUpload2[5735:207] (null)
Obviously this isnt what I hoped to achieve, so any help would be great.
Kind Regards
You can't create a UTF-8 encoded string out of just any arbitrary binary data - the data needs to actually be UTF-8 encoded, and the data for your JPEG image obviously is not. Your binary data doesn't represent a string, so you can't directly create a string from it - -[NSString initWithData:encoding:] fails appropriately in your case.
Assuming you're using NSURLConnection (although a similar statement should be true for other methods), you'll construct your NSMutableURLRequest and use -setHTTPBody: which you need to pass an NSData object to. I don't understand why you would be using a GET method here since it sounds like you're going to be uploading this image data to your web service - you should be using POST.