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Updated on 2023-12-07 GMT+08:00

Injecting Invisible Watermarks into Images

Function

This API is used to inject text watermarks or image watermarks into an image. You need to pass an image in formData format to this API. DSC returns the binary stream of the watermarked image. Currently, the supported image formats include *.jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .png, .bmp, .dib, .rle, .tiff, .tif, .ppm, .webp, .tga, .tpic, and .gif.

URI

POST /v1/{project_id}/image/watermark/embed

Table 1 Path Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

project_id

Yes

String

Project ID.

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

User token, which can be obtained by calling the IAM API (value of X-Subject-Token in the response header).

Table 3 FormData parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

file

Yes

File

Image into which watermarks are to be injected. The width and height must be greater than 512 pixels.

blind_watermark

No

String

Content of the invisible text watermark, which cannot exceed 32 characters. Currently, only digits and uppercase and lowercase letters are supported. It is used as an alternative of image_watermark.

image_watermark

No

File

Invisible image watermark file to be injected. It is used as an alternative of blind_watermark.

Response Parameters

Status code: 400

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error Code

error_msg

String

Error Message

Example Requests

Add the invisible text watermark "testWaterMark" to image "test.PNG".

The request is submitted through a form. In the request, "file" indicates a specific file.

POST /v1/{project_id}/image/watermark/embed HTTP/1.1

{
  "blind_watermark" : "testWaterMark",
  "file" : "test.PNG"
}

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Request successful.

"{\"Watermarked image\"}"

Status code: 400

Invalid request.

{
  "error_code" : "DSC.00000007",
  "error_msg" : "File format error"
}

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

Request successful.

400

Invalid request.

Error Codes

See Error Codes.