Features

Image Uploader is a client-side ActiveX control which allows you to navigate images on your server, perform basic image processing operations, edit descriptions of images and then upload these images to another server. It dramatically increases the convenience of image uploading to server vs. standard HTML means (using <input type="file" .... >). In addition it will also automatically create and upload each image's thumbnail.

Image Uploader transmits data to servers in standard multipart/form-data. This means that the data can be handled by any script or platform: ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, Cold Fusion, Perl, PHP (and all other platforms which support HTTP). We also supply ready-to-use sample scripts for receiving the files on all those platforms mentioned.

• Easy navigation through the folders on your computer. Displays thumbnails for the pictures (JPEG, TIFF, PSD, WBMP, BMP, and GIF). You can also switch between different views: thumbnails, details, list, and icons.
• Memory friendly even for huge number of uploaded files.
• Allow both multiple and single file selection.
• Automatically tracks changes in file system (folder content).
• Preview thumbnails are taken from EXIF if possible (extremely fast).
• Files can be uploaded in separate requests; this means that if upload process was interrupted, user will be able to resume it. He will not have to upload files which already have been uploaded.
• Automatic recovery of upload if connection is broken.
• Support of non-image files.
• Generating up to three thumbnails or different sizes (on client-side).
• Rotating on 90 degrees (on client-side).
• Adding descriptions to each file.
• Displaying a progress bar during file upload.
• Ability to display quality meter that allows user to estimate a maximum acceptable print format.
• Appereance customization.
• Fully adapted to be used at Windows XP SP2.
• International languages support. Easy to localize Image Uploader user interface to other languages. Each text which can be displayed in Image Uploader can be changed. East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc) languages are fully supported too.
• Drag-n-drop support.
• Estimation of upload time.
• Possibility to specify limitation for total upload size, dimensions, uploaded files count, and single file size.
• Possibility to specify filters for file types.
• Full control of uploading process via client scripts (including even custom progress bar).
• Ability to attach additional forms to the uploading data (input, select, and textarea fields).
• XP styles support.
• Code samples for the following platforms are available:
  • ASP (for several upload components);
  • ASP.NET;
  • PHP;
  • Perl;
  • Cold Fusion;
  • JSP (tested on Resin and Tomcat servers).

How Does Aurigma Image Uploader Work?

1. User loads page with a web browser. This page contains ActiveX control (Aurigma's Image Uploader). The control is built-in to the HTML with the following code:

   <object id="ImageUploader" classid="clsid:..." 
   codebase="ImageUploader2.cab">
   ...
   </object>
   

   The user can then browse folders via the navigation tree, select images, rotate them, and edit their descriptions.
2. When user presses "Send" button, images are resized to the optionally used predefined size and thumbnails are generated. Then, all the selected images, thumbnails and descriptions are encoded into multipart/form-data format and sent to the server.
3. The multipart/form-data is can then be handled on the server using scripts and images, thumbnails and descriptions of files, can be saved to a database or somewhere else.
4. Server then generates results page (according to the script).