Image to Image / Ruby Examples

This page contains various examples of using the Image to Image API in Ruby. The examples are complete and fully functional. Read more about how to convert Image to Image in Ruby.

Basic examples
Rails examples

Basic examples

PNG file to JPEG file

require "pdfcrowd"

begin
    # Create an API client instance.
    client = Pdfcrowd::ImageToImageClient.new("your_username", "your_apikey")

    # Configure the conversion.
    client.setOutputFormat("jpg")

    # Run the conversion and save the result to a file.
    client.convertFileToFile("/path/to/logo.png", "logo.jpg")

rescue Pdfcrowd::Error => why
    STDERR.puts "PDFCrowd Error: #{why}"
    raise
end

PNG file to in-memory JPEG

require "pdfcrowd"

begin
    # Create an API client instance.
    client = Pdfcrowd::ImageToImageClient.new("your_username", "your_apikey")

    # Configure the conversion.
    client.setOutputFormat("jpg")

    # Run the conversion and store the result in the `image` variable.
    image = client.convertFile("/path/to/logo.png")

    # at this point the "image" variable contains JPG raw data and
    # can be sent in an HTTP response, saved to a file, etc.

rescue Pdfcrowd::Error => why
    STDERR.puts "PDFCrowd Error: #{why}"
    raise
end

PNG file to JPEG stream

require "pdfcrowd"

begin
    # Create an API client instance.
    client = Pdfcrowd::ImageToImageClient.new("your_username", "your_apikey")

    # Configure the conversion.
    client.setOutputFormat("jpg")

    # Create an output stream for the conversion result
    output_stream = open("logo.jpg", "wb")

    # run the conversion and write the result to the output stream.
    client.convertFileToStream("/path/to/logo.png", output_stream)

    # Close the output stream.
    output_stream.close()

rescue Pdfcrowd::Error => why
    STDERR.puts "PDFCrowd Error: #{why}"
    raise
end

PNG url to JPEG file

require "pdfcrowd"

begin
    # Create an API client instance.
    client = Pdfcrowd::ImageToImageClient.new("your_username", "your_apikey")

    # Configure the conversion.
    client.setOutputFormat("jpg")

    # Run the conversion and save the result to a file.
    client.convertUrlToFile("https://pdfcrowd.com/static/images/logo.png", "logo.jpg")

rescue Pdfcrowd::Error => why
    STDERR.puts "PDFCrowd Error: #{why}"
    raise
end

PNG url to in-memory JPEG

require "pdfcrowd"

begin
    # Create an API client instance.
    client = Pdfcrowd::ImageToImageClient.new("your_username", "your_apikey")

    # Configure the conversion.
    client.setOutputFormat("jpg")

    # Run the conversion and store the result in the `image` variable.
    image = client.convertUrl("https://pdfcrowd.com/static/images/logo.png")

    # at this point the "image" variable contains JPG raw data and
    # can be sent in an HTTP response, saved to a file, etc.

rescue Pdfcrowd::Error => why
    STDERR.puts "PDFCrowd Error: #{why}"
    raise
end

PNG url to JPEG stream

require "pdfcrowd"

begin
    # Create an API client instance.
    client = Pdfcrowd::ImageToImageClient.new("your_username", "your_apikey")

    # Configure the conversion.
    client.setOutputFormat("jpg")

    # Create an output stream for the conversion result
    output_stream = open("logo.jpg", "wb")

    # run the conversion and write the result to the output stream.
    client.convertUrlToStream("https://pdfcrowd.com/static/images/logo.png", output_stream)

    # Close the output stream.
    output_stream.close()

rescue Pdfcrowd::Error => why
    STDERR.puts "PDFCrowd Error: #{why}"
    raise
end

In-memory PNG to JPEG file

require "pdfcrowd"

begin
    # Create an API client instance.
    client = Pdfcrowd::ImageToImageClient.new("your_username", "your_apikey")

    # Configure the conversion.
    client.setOutputFormat("jpg")

    # Run the conversion and save the result to a file.
    client.convertRawDataToFile(open('/path/to/logo.png', 'rb').read(), "logo.jpg")

rescue Pdfcrowd::Error => why
    STDERR.puts "PDFCrowd Error: #{why}"
    raise
end

In-memory PNG to in-memory JPEG

require "pdfcrowd"

begin
    # Create an API client instance.
    client = Pdfcrowd::ImageToImageClient.new("your_username", "your_apikey")

    # Configure the conversion.
    client.setOutputFormat("jpg")

    # Run the conversion and store the result in the `image` variable.
    image = client.convertRawData(open('/path/to/logo.png', 'rb').read())

    # at this point the "image" variable contains JPG raw data and
    # can be sent in an HTTP response, saved to a file, etc.

rescue Pdfcrowd::Error => why
    STDERR.puts "PDFCrowd Error: #{why}"
    raise
end

In-memory PNG to JPEG stream

require "pdfcrowd"

begin
    # Create an API client instance.
    client = Pdfcrowd::ImageToImageClient.new("your_username", "your_apikey")

    # Configure the conversion.
    client.setOutputFormat("jpg")

    # Create an output stream for the conversion result
    output_stream = open("logo.jpg", "wb")

    # run the conversion and write the result to the output stream.
    client.convertRawDataToStream(open('/path/to/logo.png', 'rb').read(), output_stream)

    # Close the output stream.
    output_stream.close()

rescue Pdfcrowd::Error => why
    STDERR.puts "PDFCrowd Error: #{why}"
    raise
end

Get info about the current conversion

require "pdfcrowd"

begin
    # Create an API client instance.
    client = Pdfcrowd::ImageToImageClient.new("your_username", "your_apikey")

    # Configure the conversion.
    client.setOutputFormat("jpg")
    client.setDebugLog(true)

    # Run the conversion and save the result to a file.
    client.convertFileToFile("/path/to/logo.png", "logo.jpg")
    
    # print URL pointing to the debug log for this request.
    puts "Debug log url: #{client.getDebugLogUrl()}"
    
    # print Number of conversion credits remaining in your account.
    puts "Remaining credit count: #{client.getRemainingCreditCount()}"
    
    # print Number of credits consumed for this conversion.
    puts "Consumed credit count: #{client.getConsumedCreditCount()}"
    
    # print Unique identifier assigned to this conversion job.
    puts "Job id: #{client.getJobId()}"
    
    # print Size of the output data in bytes.
    puts "Output size: #{client.getOutputSize()}"

rescue Pdfcrowd::Error => why
    STDERR.puts "PDFCrowd Error: #{why}"
    raise
end

Rails examples