Convert Leptonica Pix Object to QPixmap ( or other image object ) - c++

Question

I'm using the Leptonica Library to process some pictures. After that I want to show them in my QT GUI. Leptonica is using their own format Pix for the images, while QT is using their own format QPixmap. At the moment the only way for me is to save the pictures after processing as a file ( like bmp ) and then load them again with a QT function call. Now I want to convert them in my code, so I dont need to take the detour with saving them on the filesystem. Any ideas how to do this?
Best Regards
// edit:
Okay as already suggested I tried to convert the PIX* to a QImage.
The PIX* is defined like this:
http://tpgit.github.com/Leptonica/pix_8h_source.html
struct Pix
{
l_uint32 w; /* width in pixels */
l_uint32 h; /* height in pixels */
l_uint32 d; /* depth in bits */
l_uint32 wpl; /* 32-bit words/line */
l_uint32 refcount; /* reference count (1 if no clones) */
l_int32 xres; /* image res (ppi) in x direction */
/* (use 0 if unknown) */
l_int32 yres; /* image res (ppi) in y direction */
/* (use 0 if unknown) */
l_int32 informat; /* input file format, IFF_* */
char *text; /* text string associated with pix */
struct PixColormap *colormap; /* colormap (may be null) */
l_uint32 *data; /* the image data */
};
while QImage offers me a method like this:
http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/qimage.html#QImage-7
QImage ( const uchar * data,
int width,
int height,
int bytesPerLine,
Format format )
I assume I cant just copy the data from the PIX to the QImage when calling the constructor. I guess I need to fill the QImage Pixel by Pixel, but actually I dont know how? Do I need to loop through all the coordinates? How do I regard the bit depth? Any ideas here?

Answer 1

I use this for conversion QImage to PIX:
PIX* TessTools::qImage2PIX(QImage& qImage) {
PIX * pixs;
l_uint32 *lines;
qImage = qImage.rgbSwapped();
int width = qImage.width();
int height = qImage.height();
int depth = qImage.depth();
int wpl = qImage.bytesPerLine() / 4;
pixs = pixCreate(width, height, depth);
pixSetWpl(pixs, wpl);
pixSetColormap(pixs, NULL);
l_uint32 *datas = pixs->data;
for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) {
lines = datas + y * wpl;
QByteArray a((const char*)qImage.scanLine(y), qImage.bytesPerLine());
for (int j = 0; j < a.size(); j++) {
*((l_uint8 *)lines + j) = a[j];
}
}
return pixEndianByteSwapNew(pixs);
}
And this for conversion PIX to QImage:
QImage TessTools::PIX2QImage(PIX *pixImage) {
int width = pixGetWidth(pixImage);
int height = pixGetHeight(pixImage);
int depth = pixGetDepth(pixImage);
int bytesPerLine = pixGetWpl(pixImage) * 4;
l_uint32 * s_data = pixGetData(pixEndianByteSwapNew(pixImage));
QImage::Format format;
if (depth == 1)
format = QImage::Format_Mono;
else if (depth == 8)
format = QImage::Format_Indexed8;
else
format = QImage::Format_RGB32;
QImage result((uchar*)s_data, width, height, bytesPerLine, format);
// Handle pallete
QVector<QRgb> _bwCT;
_bwCT.append(qRgb(255,255,255));
_bwCT.append(qRgb(0,0,0));
QVector<QRgb> _grayscaleCT(256);
for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
_grayscaleCT.append(qRgb(i, i, i));
}
if (depth == 1) {
result.setColorTable(_bwCT);
} else if (depth == 8) {
result.setColorTable(_grayscaleCT);
} else {
result.setColorTable(_grayscaleCT);
}
if (result.isNull()) {
static QImage none(0,0,QImage::Format_Invalid);
qDebug() << "***Invalid format!!!";
return none;
}
return result.rgbSwapped();
}

Answer 2

This code accepts a const QImage& parameter.
static PIX* makePIXFromQImage(const QImage &image)
{
QByteArray ba;
QBuffer buf(&ba);
buf.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly);
image.save(&buf, "BMP");
return pixReadMemBmp(ba.constData(), ba.size());
}

Answer 3

I do not know the Leptonica Library, but I had a short look at the documentation and found the documentation about the PIX structure. You can create a QImage from the raw data and convert this to a QPixmap with convertFromImage.

Answer 4

Well I could solve the problem this way:
Leptonica offers a function
l_int32 pixWriteMemBmp (l_uint8 **pdata, size_t *psize, PIX *pix)
With this function you can write into the memory instead of a filestream. Still ( in this example ) the Bmp Header and format persists ( there are the same functions for other image formats too ).
The corresponding function from QT is this one:
bool QImage::loadFromData ( const uchar * data, int len, const char * format = 0 )
Since the the Header persits I just need to pass the data ptr and the size to the loadFromData function and QT does the rest.
So all together it would be like this:
PIX *m_pix;
FILE * pFile;
pFile = fopen( "PathToFile", "r" );
m_pix = pixReadStreamBmp(pFile); // If other file format use the according function
fclose(pFile);
// Now we have a Pix object from leptonica
l_uint8* ptr_memory;
size_t len;
pixWriteMemBmp(&ptr_memory, &size, m_pix);
// Now we have the picture somewhere in the memory
QImage testimage;
QPixmap pixmap;
testimage.loadFromData((uchar *)ptr_memory,len);
pixmap.convertFromImage(testimage);
// Now we have the image as a pixmap in Qt
This actually works for me, tho I don't know if there is a way to do this backwards so easy. ( If there is, please let me know )
Best Regards

Answer 5

You can save your pixmap to RAM instead of file (use QByteArray to store the data, and QBuffer as your I/O device).