ColorCommand returns different colorcount

Hi ,

When I load a page (Black & White scanned) from a PDF
with following method and ran ColorCommand it returns 2 colors

Dim rstImgTemp As RasterImage = _codecs.Load(fileName, 0, CodecsLoadByteOrder.BgrOrGray, 1, 1)
Dim cmdColorCount As New ColorCountCommand()
cmdColorCount.Run(rstImgTemp)

But when I load the same image with following overloaded method,

Dim info As CodecsImageInfo = _codecs.GetInformation(DocViewName.Trim, False, 1)
Dim imageRect As New Rectangle(0, 0, 150, 75)
imageRect =
RasterImageList.GetFixedAspectRatioImageRectangle(info.Width, info.Height, imageRect)

Dim rstImgTemp As RasterImage = _codecs.Load(DocViewName.Trim,
imageRect.Width, imageRect.Height, 24, RasterSizeFlags.Bicubic, info.Order, 1, 1)
Dim cmdColorCount As New ColorCountCommand()
cmdColorCount.Run(rstImgTemp)

Is it normal?
If it is normal then, is it possible to find out whether a page is B&W or has more colors,
so that I can use different parameters to
load that page?

Thanks & Regards
Loki

Hello,

Do you mean that you don't get the correct number of colors when you load the image using the overloaded Codecs.Load method?

To get the correct number of colors, try to load the image as 1-bit using the codecs.Load method.

You can check the bits per pixel of the image before loading it by using the CodecsImageInfo Class. This class provides functionality for getting information about the image before loading it.
For more information, please read the following topic in the LEADTOOLS .Net documentation:
- CodecsImageInfo Class

Thanks,
Maen Badwan
LEADTOOLS Technical Support

Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply.

If I use info.bitsPerPixel I get a image with very poor quality.

My idea is to load thumb image by using

_codecs.Load(DocViewName.Trim, imageRect.Width, imageRect.Height, 24, RasterSizeFlags.Bicubic, info.Order, 1, 1)

With following options

_codecs.Options.Pdf.Load.DisplayDepth = 1
_codecs.Options.Pdf.Load.GraphicsAlpha = 1
_codecs.Options.Pdf.Load.TextAlpha = 1

And when user wants to view the page in full size,  

 

If the thumbnail image has more than 2 colors. then We can load that page with DisplayDepth = 24,   

If it contains Only 2 colors then we can load with  DisplayDepth = 1,   

 

So the problem here is
I am always getting more than 2 colors when i run colorCommand on the thumbimage( which is loaded with 24 bits perpixel).

It will be great if you can suggest me a way to find whether this page is B & W or Colored. 
Thanks & Regards
Loki.

Hello,

For raster image formats such as BMP, GIF and TIFF, it is possible to know the pixel depth of the image without loading it, because the headers of these images contain that information.
However, PDF files are not pure raster images. They are documents that can contain images, text and shapes. That's why even if they only contain 2-color images; LEADTOOLS by default will load them as 24-bit images.

If you only want to determine if the image has 2 colors or multiple colors, one way is to load a small copy of the image by setting codecs.Options.Pdf.Load.XResolution and YResolution to small values before loading the image. You can then count the number of unique colors in the image using the ColorCountCommand Class.

Thanks,
Maen Badwan
LEADTOOLS Technical Support