jpylyzer

About

Jpylyzer is a JP2 (JPEG 2000 Part 1) image validator and properties extractor. Its development was partially supported by the SCAPE Project. The SCAPE project is co-funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT-2009.4.1 (Grant Agreement number 270137).

Jpylyzer homepage

Please visit the jpylyzer homepage for links to the most recent package downloads (Debian packages and Windows binaries), and a User Manual which documents all aspects of the software:

http://jpylyzer.openpreservation.org/

CI Status

• Travis-CI

• OPF Jenkins

Using jpylyzer from the command line

Calling jpylyzer in a command window without any arguments results in the following helper message:

usage: jpylyzer [-h] [--format FMT] [--legacyout] [--mix {1,2}] [--nopretty]
          [--nullxml] [--recurse] [--verbose] [--version] [--wrapper]
          jp2In [jp2In ...]

Positional arguments

Argument	Description
jp2In	input JP2 image(s), may be one or more (whitespace-separated) path expressions; prefix wildcard (*) with backslash (\) in Linux

Optional arguments

Argument	Description
[-h, --help]	show help message and exit
[--format FMT]	validation format; allowed values are jp2 (used by default) and j2c (which activates raw codestream validation)
[--mix {1,2}]	report additional output in NISO MIX format (version 1.0 or 2.0)
[--legacyout]	report output in jpylyzer 1.x format (provided for backward compatibility only)
[--nopretty]	suppress pretty-printing of XML output
[--nullxml]	extract null-terminated XML content from XML and UUID boxes(doesn't affect validation)
[--recurse, -r]	when analysing a directory, recurse into subdirectories (implies --wrapper if --legacyout is used)
[--verbose]	report test results in verbose format
[-v, --version]	show program's version number and exit
[--wrapper, -w]	wrap output for individual image(s) in 'results' XML element (deprecated from jpylyzer 2.x onward, only takes effect if --legacyout is used)

Output

Output is directed to the standard output device (stdout).

Example

jpylyzer rubbish.jp2 > rubbish.xml

In the above example, output is redirected to the file ‘rubbish.xml’. By default jpylyzer’s XML is pretty-printed, so you should be able to view the file using your favourite text editor. Alternatively use a dedicated XML editor, or open the file in your web browser.

Output format

The output file contains the following top-level elements:

1. One toolInfo element, which contains information about jpylyzer (its name and version number)

2. One or more file elements, each of which contain information about about the analysed files

In turn, each file element contains the following sub-elements:

1. fileInfo: general information about the analysed file

2. statusInfo: information about the status of jpylyzer's validation attempt

3. isValid: outcome of the validation

4. tests: outcome of the individual tests that are part of the validation process (organised by box)

5. properties: image properties (organised by box)

6. propertiesExtension: wrapper element for NISO MIX output (only if the --mix option is used)

Using jpylyzer as a Python module

Instead of using jpylyzer from the command-line, you can also import it as a module in your own Python programs. To do so, install jpylyzer with pip. Then import jpylyzer into your code by adding:

from jpylyzer import jpylyzer

Subsequently you can call any function that is defined in jpylyzer.py. In practice you will most likely only need the checkOneFile function. The following minimal script shows how this works:

#! /usr/bin/env python

from jpylyzer import jpylyzer

# Define JP2
myFile = "/home/johan/jpylyzer-test-files/aware.jp2"

# Analyse with jpylyzer, result to Element object
myResult = jpylyzer.checkOneFile(myFile)

# Return image height value
imageHeight = myResult.findtext('./properties/jp2HeaderBox/imageHeaderBox/height')
print(imageHeight)

Here, myResult is an Element object that can either be used directly, or converted to XML using the ElementTree module[^3]. The structure of the element object follows the XML output that described in Chapter 5.

For validation a raw JPEG 2000 codestreams, call the checkOneFile function with the additional validationFormat argument, and set it to j2c:

# Define Codestream
myFile = "/home/johan/jpylyzer-test-files/rubbish.j2c"

# Analyse with jpylyzer, result to Element object
myResult = jpylyzer.checkOneFile(myFile, 'j2c')

Debian packages build process

The Vagrant directory of this repo contains instructions on how to build Debian packages using VirtualBox and Vagrant. A Vagrantfile and provisioning scripts are included for a number of target platforms, which should make the process of building the packages fairly easy.

Steps in preparing a jpylyzer release

See instructions here