In software development, files have special endings called extensions that show what they are and how to use them. These extensions act like labels, telling us what’s inside the file. Knowing these extensions is important for developers because they work with different tools and languages. In this blog post, we’ll look at the most common […]
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Tagging images is important for managing digital assets. It helps with SEO and business operations. Proper tags make user searching easier. This enhances user interaction and supports fact-based decisions. In a corporate setting, traditional tagging faces challenges. It is tedious and lacks consistency. It is also less scalable. These issues make it hard for businesses […]
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As a developer, you must know the importance of enhanced website user experience. Document upload UI is one of the most overlooked when developing file management systems. In this blog, we will focus on the importance of document upload UI. We will also examine the critical aspects of creating user-friendly user interfaces. Furthermore, we will […]
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Are you tired of sorting and managing documents on your WordPress site? Let’s talk about a more innovative way to handle things. Ever heard of a Document Management System (DMS)? It’s like a superhero for organizing data. Think of easy access, better teamwork, and getting things done faster. But wait, here’s the real hero – […]
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In today’s digital age, job-seeking has become more streamlined and accessible through online job portals and resume submission platforms. Moreover, these platforms have revolutionized how job seekers connect with potential employers. Hence, enabling them to showcase their skills and experience with ease. However, one aspect often overlooked is the importance of quick image upload for […]
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Managing and extracting data from various forms and documents can be daunting for developers and organizations in today’s digital age. A robust file management platform with an OCR SDK is crucial for streamlining data extraction processes. However, developers often encounter numerous challenges and pain points when dealing with form recognition. Hence, finding innovative solutions such […]
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React is the most popular JavaScript framework on the planet. You can use it to quickly create feature-rich web applications. Also, it enables you to easily add new features to your existing project, like React image upload. You just need to type a few lines of code. It can make your life a lot easier. […]
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This is the era of technology; hence, thousands of applications are being developed daily. Now let’s take an example of image uploading services. There exist so many options that create a confusing situation. But let’s focus on options such as Filestack vs. Cloudinary. This article explains everything to know about Cloudinary vs. Filestack features for […]
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Adjusting the size of an image in HTML is a widely used technique for optimizing the layout of web pages. Image sizing is especially important when images do not fit perfectly into the page design. Today, JavaScript file upload API services can help businesses with this. To accomplish this, the width and height attributes can […]
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Image recognition APIs are a component of a larger computer vision environment. Computer vision can handle everything from face recognition to feature extraction, which distinguishes between things in an image. Amazon and Google have also entered the fray, each with their own amazing set of service offerings. Google Cloud Vision API handles the most popular […]
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Dozens of JavaScript file uploaders exist in the industry, but very few can meet your expectations. Generally, ease of handling uploaded files is a great advantage for a file uploader. Building and maintaining such a JavaScript file uploader is laborious. Thus, this is where the Filestack comes into play. Filestack’s Processing Engine API offers many […]
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Building a web application will require you to implement a JavaScript file uploader in your project. This file uploader does one primary task in your web application: to receive files from the user and store them on the server. JavaScript is one of the most used and popular languages for building applications on the web. […]
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An Optical Character Recognition – or simply OCR API is a valuable machine vision tool that allows you to recognize and retrieve text from images for further processing or storage. This is particularly useful when dealing with text scans and pictures, such as invoices, scanned forms, and signage. What Is an OCR API? We evaluate […]
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Being a developer involves an intricate understanding of various tools and frameworks. One such invaluable tool is Postman, particularly for file uploads. In this article, we’ll explore the how-tos of Postman, its benefits, limitations, and steps to upload a file using it. We’ll also touch upon alternative methods for file uploads. Postman to send a […]
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React.js is one of the most popular frameworks for building web applications. It helps developers construct components that are both SEO-compliant and extremely interactive. The capabilities of React.js also help with upkeep and productivity levels. The Material UI library’s integration into React.js projects makes them much easier to navigate and allows Material UI file upload. […]
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Flask is a micro web, lightweight application framework designed to help develop web applications. It makes it easier for you to build apps on the web by incorporating features that simplify the development process. It is also effective for both simple and complex applications. With flask upload file, it is easier to access virtual environments. […]
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What Is Flask? Flask is a Python-based lightweight or micro web framework for developing online applications. It comes with several essential tools and capabilities that make developing web applications a lot easier. One capability of Flask is that it supports the ability to do a Flask upload file from a client to a server and […]
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Do you have a hard time executing a Boto3 upload file? If the answer is yes, then you’re at the right place for help. As you already know, if you want to upload or download files from AWS S3, you can use Boto3, a Python library for AWS. By the time you have finished reading […]
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cURL has a lot of power, but most of it is concealed behind its deliberate non-verbosity and its sophisticated multiple flags, configurations, and options. Once you understand it, however, it is easy to see that cURL has a wide range of powerful features. So let’s explore the best-kept secrets about the cURL upload file. In […]
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Uploading files in Laravel is as easy as writing a few lines of code. All you need to do is create a file viewer where your user selects a file to upload, and a controller does the rest. There are many file upload options, but with our file uploader and the Filestack PHP SDK framework, […]
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Everyone has had a file get stuck during the upload process. This is because, although a smooth file sharing process is key to improving a website’s user experience and allowing users to collaborate and communicate seamlessly, it is often neglected. Laravel file upload, however, helps put an end to this. It is a PHP framework […]
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If you work on web-related tasks, then you have heard about Bootstrap file uploads. If you already have an great website but want to add Bootstrap file uploads, or you are a beginner with a basic understanding of HTML and CSS but want to be a bootstrap file upload expert, this article is for you. […]
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Drag and drop file upload is a common feature for uploading files to a website. Of course, you can always upload files or images using traditional methods, but sometimes using a drag and drop file upload is more convenient. The appeal of drag and drop file upload features is obvious. Every user needs to regularly […]
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From .WEBM, .OGG, .MP3, .MP4 and more, there are many video 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 How to Choose the Best Audio File Format and Codec, in this article […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Domain whitelisting is a method of ensuring that no one but your organization is using your web picker. It’s one way of securing your solution and your resources, so others don’t attempt to piggy back on your account. At the same time, it isn’t entirely foolproof on its own; it requires other security measures. It’s […]
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Resizing images like PNGs, JPGs or GIFs is one of the most common things we have to do as developers. You may need to optimize the layout of a website or application, reduce the size of your images to increase page performance or even just get the alignment of that reaction meme you’re playing […]
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How is your application’s file upload security? Filestack provides secure file upload features that can be included in any application, protecting the platform’s upload gateway. In addition to this, the Filestack API is protected through parameters like custom API keys, domain whitelisting and Filestack Policies and Signatures. Here’s what you need to know about the […]
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What happens when a virus infects your application? While it feels like a major disaster, with a little thoughtful planning, you can take steps remedy the issue and get your app securely back online. We’ll detail for you a number of things you’ll want to consider when removing the virus from your app, ranging from […]
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Have you ever dropped code in to a project, and watched it magically work as intended on the first try? It’s a good feeling, but somewhere in the back of your mind there may be a little voice whispering: “I have no idea why that just worked.” You’re not alone. With the explosive rise in […]
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Every company should have robust virus protection to handle the monitoring and quarantining of files that have possibly been infected with a virus or malware. Many major companies have been in the news after becoming victimized by infected files. These companies have suffered in the form of bad press, application downtime and millions of dollars […]
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Any well functioning company has some form of virus protection in place to take care of basic monitoring and quarantining of infected files. Though proven to be somewhat effective in avoiding intrusion or blocking major cyber attacks and direct hacking attempts, not all types of threats are going to come in one of these forms. […]
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Does your website allow users to upload files? Learn secure file upload best practices and prevent dangerous vulnerabilities and attacks. Almost every web application accepts user input, and one of the most common types of input is in the form of file uploads. Whether it’s a consumer application where users are uploading photos, or […]
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