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png-chunks-extract
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Extract the data chunks from a PNG file.
Useful for reading the metadata of a PNG image, or as the base of a more complete PNG parser.
chunks = extract(data)
Takes the raw image file data
as a Uint8Array
or Node.js Buffer
, and returns an array of chunks. Each chunk has a name and data buffer:
[
{ name: 'IHDR', data: Uint8Array([...]) },
{ name: 'IDAT', data: Uint8Array([...]) },
{ name: 'IDAT', data: Uint8Array([...]) },
{ name: 'IDAT', data: Uint8Array([...]) },
{ name: 'IDAT', data: Uint8Array([...]) },
{ name: 'IEND', data: Uint8Array([]) }
]
MIT, see LICENSE.md for details.
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Extract the data chunks from a PNG file
The npm package png-chunks-extract receives a total of 21,760 weekly downloads. As such, png-chunks-extract popularity was classified as popular.
We found that png-chunks-extract demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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