Image Resize Tutorial

Tutorial Overview

The goal of this tutorial is to demonstrate how to properly resize images before sending them to our API service.

Resizing Images

In general, sending an image at full resolution is suboptimal and unnecessary. A lot of modern cameras have 4k or even 5k (or higher) native resolution, but there is not really a need to send an image with a resolution bigger than 800x600 for multiple reasons:

• networking performance - larger files take longer to transfer across the internet
• processing performance - larger images take more time to process
• cost - sending large files at high volumes can consume a lot of bandwidth, which can potentially incur high costs from your ISP / service provider

Example Code