The digilib Scaler API

The Scaler servlet takes parameters in the HTTP query string format:

http://host.domain/digilib/Scaler/request_path/?param1=value1&param2=value2&...

Unknown parameters will be silently ignored.

Recognised parameters (as of version 2.9.0, for the most up to date information use the source for parameters and mode options ):

request_path

(optional, deprecated) path to file or directory.

fn

path to file or directory. (This path will be added to request_path. Either parameter can be empty. All paths are relative to the configured base directory from the digilib-config.xml parameter basedir-list).

pn

page number. Index into the (alphabetically sorted) directory given by the path. Starts with 1. Ignored if the path points to a file. Default: 1.

dw

destination image width (pixels). If omitted the image is scaled to fit dh.

dh

destination image height (pixels). If omitted the image is scaled to fit dw.

wx

relative x offset of the image area to be sent (0 <= wx <= 1). Default: 0.

wy

relative y offset of the image area to be sent (0 <= wy <= 1). Default: 0.

ww

relative width of the image area to be sent (0 <= ww <= 1). Default: 1.

wh

relative height of the image area to be sent (0 <= wh <= 1). Default: 1.

ws

additional scaling factor. The resulting image will have the size [ws*dw x ws*dh]. Default: 1.

cont

change contrast of the image. Negative values reduce contrast, positive values enhance contrast. Each pixel value is multiplied by 2^cont. Default: 0

brgt

change brightness of image. Negative value reduces brightness, positive value enhances brightness. The value brgt is added to each pixel value. Default: 0

rot

rotate image. Rotation angle is given in degrees. Default: 0

rgbm

modify colour by multiplication. The contrast of the red green and blue components of the image can be reduced or enhanced similar to the cont parameter. The factors for red, green and blue are separated by slashes (e.g. 0.86/0/-0.5). Default: 0/0/0

rgba

modify colour by addition. The brightness of the red green and blue components of the image can be reduced or enhanced similar to the brgt parameter. The factors for red, green and blue are separated by slashes (e.g. 100/0/25). Default: 0/0/0

ddpi

resolution of client display for osize mode. Either ddpi or ddpix and ddpiy must be set to use osize mode.

ddpix

resolution of client display in x direction for osize mode.

ddpiy

resolution of client display in y direction for osize mode.

scale

absolute scale factor applied to the highest resolution image for ascale mode.

colop

color operation. One of

GRAYSCALE (produces grayscale image)
NTSC_GRAY (uses NTSC formula to produce grayscale image)
BITONAL (produces black-and-white image)
INVERT (inverts colors)
MAP_GRAY_BGR (produces false-color image mapping brightness values to color scale from blue via green to red).

mo

list of options for the mode of operation separated by comma “,”.

fit: scale the (selected area of the) image proportionally to fit inside [dw x dh], preserving its aspect ratio (default).
squeeze: scale the (selected area of the) image to fill [dw x dh], changing its aspect ratio (since v2.3.3).
crop: scale the (selected area of the) image proportionally to fill [dw x dh] with the shorter side, cropping the longer side (since v2.5).
fill: scale the (selected area of the) image proportionally to fill [dw x dh] with the longer side, filling out the image on the shorter side if possible (since v2.3.3).
clip: send the file in the highest resolution, cropped to fit [dw x dh].
osize: scale to original size based on image resolution (from the image metadata) and display resolution (from parameter ddpi). Fails if either resolution is unknown.
ascale: scale the highest resolution image by an absolute factor given by the scale parameter.
file: send the file as-is (may be very large and all sorts of image types!). If the configuration doesn’t allow sending files (sendfile-allowed=false) revert to clip.
rawfile: send the file as-is with a mime-type of “application/octet-stream” so the browser presents a download dialog.
errtxt: send error response as plain text.
errimg: send error response as image (default).
errcode: send error response as HTTP status code.
q0-q2: quality of interpolation in scaling (q0: worst, q2 best).
hires: only use the highest resolution image.
autores: use the pre-scaled image that is bigger than the requested size (default).
lores: prefer the next-smaller pre-scaled image.
vmir: mirror image vertically.
hmir: mirror image horizontally.
jpg: the resulting image is always sent as JPEG (otherwise TIFF and PNG images are sent as PNG).
png: the resulting image is always sent as PNG (otherwise JPEG and J2K images are sent as JPEG).
pxarea: interpret wx, wy, ww, wh as pixel coordinates on the highest resolution image.

The image to be loaded is specified by the request_path (deprecated) and/or the fn parameter (preferred) and the optional index pn:

if fn points to a directory then the file with the index pn (in alphabetical order according to ASCII) will be loaded
if fn points to a file (with or without extension) then this file will be loaded (regardless of pn).

Find more information on the directory layout here.

The image will always be scaled equally in horizontal and vertical direction, preserving the aspect ratio (except with mo=squeeze), such that the resulting image does not exceed the rectangle [dw x dh].

If only either height or width is given the image is scaled to match only the given dimension. The size of the resulting image in the other dimension is determined by the aspect ratio of the image or the selected area.