Find image format using Bitmap object in C#

Question

I am loading the binary bytes of the image file hard drive and loading it into a Bitmap object. How do i find the image type[JPEG, PNG, BMP etc] from the Bitmap object?

Answer 1

one weird problem i faced when i was trying to get the mime type using imagecodeinfo.. for some png files the guids were not exactly same...

first i was checking with the ImageCodecinfo and if code does not find the imageformat then i compared the imageformat using Matthias Wuttke's solution.

if both the above mentioned solution failed then used the extension method to get the file mime type..

if the mime type changes then the file also changes, we were calculating the downloaded files checksum to match with the checksum of the original file on the server .. so for us it was importent to get proper file as output.

Answer 2

Based on Alex's work above (which I actually vote as the solution, since it's one line - but I can't vote yet haha), I came up with the following function for an image library. It requires 4.0

  Public Enum Formats
    Unknown
    Bmp
    Emf
    Wmf
    Gif
    Jpeg
    Png
    Tiff
    Icon
  End Enum

  Public Shared Function ImageFormat(ByVal Image As System.Drawing.Image) As Formats
    If Not System.Enum.TryParse(Of Formats)(System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageCodecInfo.GetImageDecoders().ToList().[Single](Function(ImageCodecInfo) ImageCodecInfo.FormatID = Image.RawFormat.Guid).FormatDescription, True, ImageFormat) Then
      Return Formats.Unknown
    End If
  End Function

Answer 3

Not to bother to on old topic, but to complete this discussion, I want to share my way to query all image formats, known by windows.

using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;

public static class ImageExtentions
{
    public static ImageCodecInfo GetCodecInfo(this System.Drawing.Image img)
    {
        ImageCodecInfo[] decoders = ImageCodecInfo.GetImageDecoders();
        foreach (ImageCodecInfo decoder in decoders)
            if (img.RawFormat.Guid == decoder.FormatID)
                return decoder;
        return null;
    }
}

Now you can use it as an an image extension as shown below:

public void Test(Image img)
{
    ImageCodecInfo info = img.GetCodecInfo();
    if (info == null)
        Trace.TraceError("Image format is unkown");
    else
        Trace.TraceInformation("Image format is " + info.FormatDescription);
}

Answer 4

If you want to know the format of an image, you can load the file with the Image class, and check its RawFormat property:

using(Image img = Image.FromFile(@"C:\path\to\img.jpg"))
{
    if (img.RawFormat.Equals(System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg))
    {
      // ...
    }
}

Answer 5

of course you can. ImageFormat doesn't mean much. ImageCodecInfo has much more meaning.

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code:

using System.Linq;

//...

//get image
var file_bytes = System.Convert.FromBase64String(@"iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4//8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==");
var file_stream = new System.IO.MemoryStream(file_bytes);
var file_image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(file_stream);

//list image formats
var image_formats = typeof(System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat).GetProperties(System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Public | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static).ToList().ConvertAll(property => property.GetValue(null, null));
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(image_formats.Count, "image_formats");
foreach(var image_format in image_formats) {
    System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(image_format, "image_formats");
}

//get image format
var file_image_format = typeof(System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat).GetProperties(System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Public | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static).ToList().ConvertAll(property => property.GetValue(null, null)).Single(image_format => image_format.Equals(file_image.RawFormat));
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(file_image_format, "file_image_format");

//list image codecs
var image_codecs = System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageCodecInfo.GetImageDecoders().ToList();
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(image_codecs.Count, "image_codecs");
foreach(var image_codec in image_codecs) {
    System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(image_codec.CodecName + ", mime: " + image_codec.MimeType + ", extension: " + @image_codec.FilenameExtension, "image_codecs");
}

//get image codec
var file_image_format_codec = System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageCodecInfo.GetImageDecoders().ToList().Single(image_codec => image_codec.FormatID == file_image.RawFormat.Guid);
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(file_image_format_codec.CodecName + ", mime: " + file_image_format_codec.MimeType + ", extension: " + file_image_format_codec.FilenameExtension, "image_codecs", "file_image_format_type");

debug output:

image_formats: 10
image_formats: MemoryBMP
image_formats: Bmp
image_formats: Emf
image_formats: Wmf
image_formats: Gif
image_formats: Jpeg
image_formats: Png
image_formats: Tiff
image_formats: Exif
image_formats: Icon
file_image_format: Png
image_codecs: 8
image_codecs: Built-in BMP Codec, mime: image/bmp, extension: *.BMP;*.DIB;*.RLE
image_codecs: Built-in JPEG Codec, mime: image/jpeg, extension: *.JPG;*.JPEG;*.JPE;*.JFIF
image_codecs: Built-in GIF Codec, mime: image/gif, extension: *.GIF
image_codecs: Built-in EMF Codec, mime: image/x-emf, extension: *.EMF
image_codecs: Built-in WMF Codec, mime: image/x-wmf, extension: *.WMF
image_codecs: Built-in TIFF Codec, mime: image/tiff, extension: *.TIF;*.TIFF
image_codecs: Built-in PNG Codec, mime: image/png, extension: *.PNG
image_codecs: Built-in ICO Codec, mime: image/x-icon, extension: *.ICO
Built-in PNG Codec, mime: image/png, extension: *.PNG