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Introducing the newest tool in the Filestack toolkit - all the power of Filestack Transformations in a modern UI. Give your customers the experience of heavy duty photo editing in a lightweight, in-app experience.
You’ve chosen your team and you’re developing exciting new software. But things are going awry. You keep noticing team members arguing with each other and glancing at the clock. So what’s going wrong? It’s likely a lack of communication. The importance of soft skills in STEM environments is often overlooked. Yet, it’s one that […]
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We all know how it feels to be tired from work. You’ve had a few late nights, you’re feeling the pressure of a deadline, or you’re a little under the weather. You can’t wait for the weekend to arrive so you can unwind before doing it all over again. But burnout is different. It […]
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In recent months, we’ve all had to find new ways of working with one another. Collaboration in the workplace has never been more important – and since Covid-19, we’ve been forced to change the way we operate so that teamwork can continue. It’s not been easy to maintain a degree of normality, but businesses have […]
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Hi, I’m Gracen Hoyle and I spent this summer as an intern at Filestack. As a developer I went into my summer internship to gain practical work experience and I wanted to work on a project that was both relevant and interesting. Given the amount of time we’ve all been spending on Zoom, I […]
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The working world might look different in 2020, but summer internships at Filestack went ahead at full speed. My name is Gracen Hoyle, and I was the Filestack intern this summer as part of the Students + Startups (S+S) program. Originally hailing from North Carolina, I’ve called San Antonio home for around two years now. […]
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Framing and composition are fundamental in any kind of photography and imagery. As is the case for many art forms, there are multiple levels of perfection that you can aim for when dealing with those concepts. Images come in an endless variety of dimensions and aspect ratios, making smart image cropping important for faster, more […]
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Last year Amazon AWS announced plans to deprecate the path-style access to the S3 buckets. In that model, Amazon S3 URLs follow the format where bucket name is specified in the path part of the URL, as shown below: https://s3.Region.amazonaws.com/bucket-name/key name For some time now, Amazon AWS has provided an alternate way to access S3 […]
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In machine learning and pattern recognition, a feature is an individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed. […] a feature vector is an n-dimensional vector of numerical features that represent some object. – Wikipedia Isn’t it amazing that you can represent something as a 500-dimensional vector? Many people, especially if they are not actively engaged in […]
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We are in the middle of a global pandemic and it is affecting all of our families, our businesses, our communities in a very significant way. During this unprecedented situation, I wanted to update you on how we are approaching this situation at Filestack. For all those who have been impacted by the virus, our […]
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Today’s successful e-commerce businesses prioritize customer experience. Fast response times, clear photos, aligned text, reliable performance, and an intuitive and feature-rich interface all impact brand perception and customer satisfaction. These factors will even affect your e-commerce website’s ability to attract online customers because major search engines, like Google, factor load speeds and responsiveness in their […]
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How often have you clicked a link, and then bounced because the page took too long to load? Basic studies in addition to knowledge of web application performance are proving that website speed is a huge factor in determining user experience. By 4 seconds, 25% of your users have already bounced, with more navigating away with […]
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As the market for mobile uploads continues to expand, so does the potential for failure and error. The Visual Networking Index from Cisco estimates that current mobile data traffic has increased to 18 times its 2011 rate. These growth rates are still accelerating. There is still plenty of room for the market to grow — […]
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In just a few short years, machine learning has advanced to the point where it can make both our personal and our professional lives easier in a wide range of different ways. As a subset of the larger topic of artificial intelligence, machine learning is simply classified as the use of various statistical techniques that […]
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In today’s technology-driven society, the ability to code is a high-value skill that opens up job opportunities and offers unique ways to make an impact on the world. If you’re interested in learning to code, you may find the following resources helpful. Let’s take a look! Codeacademy Codeacademy is an online educational portal where people […]
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Picture this. You’re standing at the voting booth, you’ve made sure your voter registration is up to date and you’ve done extensive research on which candidate you’ll cast the ballot for. But then something happens. As the ballot flashes into your line of sight, you see a name that you can’t help but associate with […]
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The Filestack team had the privilege of attending DevNetwork’s DeveloperWeek Expo and Hackathon this year in Austin, TX. This is where DevNetwork’s largest network of developers in the region came together to learn and compete in Austin’s largest challenge-driven hackathon, with over $12,000 in prizes awarded to winners. Filestack provided a challenge to hackers that […]
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Overview Have you ever thought about how your brain understands the world when you look at it? Your brain is an extremely powerful processor which interprets everything you see in your entire life. But what actually happens in your mind? When you look at a scene, your eyes capture and store it in a […]
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Women programmers are a force to be reckoned with. That’s why we’re so excited to have partnered with Django Girls – a leading organization in advancing women in tech and web development. Django Girls provides free workshops for those just starting out and gives participants the tools to grow their technical knowledge, all while creating […]
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Every developer knows that the images that live in your application carry a substantial amount of weight when evaluating the health of your site. When your site’s performance is maximized, not only is your user experience top-notch, but your site is given a major boost from an SEO perspective. When images aren’t properly optimized, your […]
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The twenty-first century or, in other words, the Artificial Intelligence Era was started with the advent of deep learning in computer vision. Here, data scientists’ main goal was to extract visual features from images, classify them, and detect objects. As another point of view, during the past years, Natural Language Processing algorithms played an inevitable […]
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At Filestack, we love developers, so we were thrilled to be a part of an event with the brightest hackers in the business. With over 500 in attendance and over $140,000 in prizes, Filestack was able to provide hackers with API tools to upload, transform and deliver files into their applications at TechCrunch Disrupt. While […]
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As a developer, you spend incredible amounts of time creating or searching for solutions to improve image quality for your website. Images in your application and what you do with those images will make or break your site and impact your user experience. While quality images are required for the functionality of your site, the […]
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At Filestack, our mission is to create a complete toolkit for content processing that evolves with the needs of developers. We’ve built a series of use case specific tools and APIs including file uploads (1.8B uploads to date), transformations (27B content processing operations in 2019), intelligence and delivery which can all be tied together with […]
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Take a look at the latest Filestack tutorial. In this video we’ll walk you through how to configure our Object Detection feature within Filestack Workflows. You’ll see first hand how we’re able to detect specific image elements, filter or blur out those elements and apply transformations parameters to the overall image. Ready to get started? […]
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Filestack is heading to Disrupt™! This year’s TechCrunch Disrupt is taking place from October 2nd to 4th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and we’d love to see you there. With a history of producing content and products that stand the test of time and ever-changing technology trends, Disrupt brings together major players from […]
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Video is expanding rapidly as a medium, becoming more popular than ever as a means of sharing information, building a brand and providing actionable information that can be used in a range of applications. Video expands the volume and types of data that can be collected, stored, extracted, interpreted and used for business intelligence. On […]
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In 2018, Google changed its search ranking algorithms for mobile to include page speed. As a result, pages that load faster are going to be more likely to catch the eye – and clicks of those looking for your products or services. Otherwise, users are far more likely to abandon your page and turn to […]
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When you need to compile and share large amounts of content, coming from multiple sources in varied formats, you want a solution that makes it easy. When you’re developing an ingestion stack to control all that content, it’s critical to use the right resources. Every minute an app developer spends building an ingestion stack is […]
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Many folks don’t use HTML5 <picture> tag or webp for optimizing images (and they should!) We’ll explain how to use dynamic image sizing and webp, a new(ish) image format from Google that can make png’s and jpg’s. The results are great. We can reduce a large page from about 30MB to 5MB. We’ll look at “old school” methods to solve […]
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I heard if you can keep an image-heavy page under 5MB, it’s better than eating Açai berries. But seriously, with three lines of code, I was able to translate a 19.2 MB webpage to 4.7MB TL;DR; Using Google Chrome Developer Tools and an image processing tool, I optimized image galleries on my game sharing website by […]
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Automated analysis and information extraction from pictures of structured documents is one of the use cases we have at Filestack for applied machine learning. We are working with envelopes, receipts, invoices, and most recently: checks. Checks are a medium of a little archaic form of monetary transfers – almost unseen outside United States, nevertheless used […]
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If you’re a developer, application security is always at the forefront of your mind. That’s where Filestack Virus Detection comes in. If your application is accepting public file uploads of any kind, it’s important to protect your system from malicious activity with Virus Detection. Configured within Filestack Workflows using if/then commands, Virus Detection scans files […]
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From .MP3, .M4A, .AAC and more, there are many audio file formats you can expect to come across as a developer handling audio/video content in your application. Like in our last article The Complete Image File Extension List for Developers, and The Complete List of Video File Formats and Codecs, in this article we’ll delve […]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Common video format questions Which is the best video format? What is the difference between a video codec, video container, and a video file format? Which file format is my video file? Which video format is the smallest? Video File Formats .WEBM .MPG, .MP2, .MPEG, .MPE, .MPV .OGG .MP4, .M4P, .M4V .AVI […]
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JPEGs. PDFs. SVGs. Even for the most savvy developers, keeping track of all available image file extensions isn’t easy. Using the wrong (or suboptimal) file format could result in: Low image/video/audio quality Unnecessarily large file sizes Slow delivery of large files Inaccessibility of data within the file Simply put, knowing and understanding the many types […]
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Overview In late 2018 when we released the Document Detection service at Filestack, no one anticipated it to become an essential intelligence task alongside OCR. If you are working with images that contain documents inside, it’s essential to find your document in the image by detecting the edges and border of the document, transforming its […]
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Uploading files, images, and videos using PHP is as easy as adding a couple of scripts. This guide will show you two different ways on how to add php file upload functionality to your site: The Simple PHP Way – This is the simplest way of adding a PHP uploader to your service. The upside […]
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When you scan documents like invoices or receipts, they might be rotated, folded, or blurry. To work with them you need a process to detect your document inside, generate its bounding box, transform the detected document to fit the whole image (keeping its aspect ratio), and pre-process it to increase the OCR (optical character recognition) […]
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Image transformations are Filestack’s bread and butter. With Filestack Transformations, you’re able to apply immediate transformations to any image at any URL in an intuitive and easy-to-integrate way, so that images are adjusted and corrected the moment users upload them. In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Filestack Transformations to transform images without […]
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Prior to integrating image tagging into our our API, here at Filestack we evaluated four of the most popular image tagging services. To determine which service to use, we looked at features, pricing, image size limits, rate limits, performance and accuracy. Ultimately, we decided to go with Google Vision, but the other services might be a good […]
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File uploads used to be difficult to implement for developers. Luckily, as web standards have advanced, so have file uploads. AJAX (XMLHttpRequests) now has ubiquitous browser support, and can be safely relied on to handle file uploads. And even better, the new FormData interface allows you to easily grab all of the form’s keys/values in […]
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If you’re a developer working with SVG or HTML files, ensuring proper security should be your top priority. Malicious code in the form of viruses and malware can infect nearly any file type. In this article, we’ll explore how Filestack’s virus detection SDK allows users can leverage Filestack Workflows and virus detection to automatically detect malicious code from the target file, thus […]
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We know that Filestack Workflows allows developers and non-developers alike to streamline content tasks into a simple to use UI – all within a single API call, but do you know exactly what all it can do? Filestack Workflows provides a cleaner end result and easier to manage process for preparing your content. This can […]
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Whenever you have a mundane task that you do almost every day, it might be a good idea to automate it. For this reason our team in Kraków, after checking the online lunch menu of our favorite nearby restaurant over and over again, decided it’s time to introduce a solution to this problem (as first […]
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In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to create your own YouTube-like app. The final application will allow users to upload and share videos to the public. We will use React for the client side, Node.js for the server side, and Filestack to upload and transcode the videos. Although we’re highlighting YouTube-like apps, this […]
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Zip files are ubiquitous files on the net. We use them frequently when sending an e-mail or downloading a program. What is a zip file? It’s an archive format which contains one or several files in a compressed form in order to reduce the overall size of the file. This is not a new technology. […]
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Filestack users have a significant ally at their side when it comes to proactive protection for their application – one that takes the form of the platform itself. Virus detection is an organic part of Filestack’s workflows in a way that allows you to not only detect infected content in the files your users are […]
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A jQuery file upload solution is a generic fix for small sites, but it tends to unravel at scale. The cause of this can be found where three key trends have collided at a massive intersection: Content is growing at an exponential rate: Content used to be curated and created by enterprises and uploaded for users […]
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Uploading large files is a constant headache for developers. Pains like latency, speed, timeouts and interruptions, especially over mobile devices, are difficult to avoid. However, over the years, it is becoming increasingly important that your application be able to handle large files. At Filestack, we provide file infrastructure for over 100,000 applications worldwide, handling file […]
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App development can be an intense process. So much work goes into the different components of making a truly successful app and security is absolutely vital to the process. You need your data to be and stay secure. You need your users to be protected. Malicious attacks are one of the great existential threats to […]
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