ng-camera

Ng-camera is an AngularJS directive for capturing images form your computer's camera, and delivering them to you as Data URIs. The images is transmitted to your AngularJS controller and can be modified like you want.

To manage this process, ng-camera uses the WebcamJS standalone Javascript library developed by Joseph Huckaby, to ensure fallback and crossbrowser requirements.

Live example

Installation

Using Bower

bower install ng-camera

Usage

Import files scripts

Ng-camera uses WebcamJS to work properly so you need to add the script in your main file, don't forget to load the directive file:

<script src="/path/to/webcam.js"></script>
<script src="/path/to/ng-camera.js"></script>

Add the module as dependency

Simply add the module as dependency to your main application module like this:

angular.module('myApplication', ['camera']);

The directive

<ng-camera
    capture-message="Cheeeese!"
    countdown="3"
    output-height="160"
    output-width="213"
    viewer-height="320"
    viewer-width="426"
    image-format="jpeg"
    jpeg-quality="100"
    action-message="Take picture"
    snapshot="vm.picture"
    flash-fallback-url="/vendors/webcamjs/webcam.swf"
    overlay-url="/overlay.png"
    shutter-url="/shutter.mp3"
></ng-camera>

Options

ng-camera comes with lots of options to simplify your development:

• capture-message string Message to display when the countdown is finished | dependant of countdown
• countdown string Number of seconds to wait and display before getting the snapshot | opional
• output-height string Height of the captured snapshot image in pixels | default to viewer-height
• output-width string Width of the captured snapshot image in pixels | default to 'viewer-width'
• viewer-height string Height of the live camera viewer in pixels | default to the actual size of the DOM element 'auto'
• image-format string Image format of captured snapshot image, may be jpeg or png | not used
• jpeg-quality string For JPEG images, this is the desired quality, from 0 (worst) to 100 (best) | not used
• action-message string Message/Text to display inside the action button
• snapshot object AngularJS model to retreive the snapshot image to your controller
• flash-fallback-url string Url of the Adobe Flash player to enable the fallback and crossbrowser modes, default based on navigator.getUserMedia
• overlay-url string Overlay's url to display on top of the camera stream
• shutter-url string Shutter sound's url to play when taking the snapshot

Working example

A working example is available in the app folder. Make sure to install bower and node dependencies:

npm install && bower install

Then start the node server, it will be accessible on http:0.0.0.0:3000

node server.js

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Benjamin Cabanes

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