@daboss2003/capacitor-image-marker

A Capacitor plugin for adding text and image watermarks to images on iOS, Android, and Web.

This is a from-scratch Capacitor port of the API surface of react-native-image-marker (MIT licensed, by @JimmyDaddy). No source code from the original project is included — see NOTICE for attribution.

Install

npm install @daboss2003/capacitor-image-marker
npx cap sync

Platform requirements

Platform	Minimum
iOS	13.0
Android	SDK 22
Web	Any modern browser with Canvas 2D

Example app

A working Capacitor app that exercises every feature (text watermarks, image watermarks, position presets, font size, scale, max-size, save format, etc.) lives in example/. Quick start:

cd example
npm install
npm run dev            # opens http://localhost:5173

# Native:
npx cap add ios && npm run ios
npx cap add android && npm run android

See example/README.md for details.

Image sources

Wherever an ImageOptions.src is accepted, you may pass:

• An absolute file:// path (e.g. from @capacitor/filesystem)
• An http:// / https:// URL
• A data:image/...;base64,... data URI
• A bare base64 string (will be treated as PNG/JPEG payload)

No require('./image.png') style asset references — pass real URIs.

Quick start

Mark text on an image

import {
  ImageMarker,
  Position,
  TextBackgroundType,
  ImageFormat,
} from '@daboss2003/capacitor-image-marker';

const result = await ImageMarker.markText({
  backgroundImage: {
    src: 'file:///path/to/photo.jpg',
    scale: 1,
    rotate: 0,
    alpha: 1,
  },
  watermarkTexts: [
    {
      text: 'Hello, World',
      position: { position: Position.bottomRight },
      style: {
        color: '#ffffff',
        fontSize: 36,
        fontName: 'Helvetica',
        bold: true,
        shadowStyle: {
          dx: 2,
          dy: 2,
          radius: 4,
          color: '#000000aa',
        },
        textBackgroundStyle: {
          type: TextBackgroundType.none,
          color: '#00000088',
          padding: '8 12',
          cornerRadius: {
            all: { x: 6, y: 6 },
          },
        },
      },
    },
  ],
  quality: 90,
  saveFormat: ImageFormat.jpg,
});

console.log(result.uri); // file:// path (or data: URI when saveFormat is base64)

Mark image on image

const result = await ImageMarker.markImage({
  backgroundImage: { src: 'file:///path/to/photo.jpg' },
  watermarkImages: [
    {
      src: 'file:///path/to/logo.png',
      scale: 0.5,
      alpha: 0.8,
      rotate: 0,
      position: { position: Position.bottomLeft },
    },
  ],
  saveFormat: ImageFormat.png,
});

API

ImageMarker.markText(options: TextMarkOptions): Promise<MarkResult>
ImageMarker.markImage(options: ImageMarkOptions): Promise<MarkResult>

Both methods resolve with { uri: string }:

• For saveFormat: 'png' | 'jpg' (default jpg), uri is a file:// path to the rendered image in the app's cache directory.
• For saveFormat: 'base64', uri is a data:image/png;base64,... data URI.

TextMarkOptions

Field	Type	Default	Description
backgroundImage	ImageOptions	—	Image to draw text on.
watermarkTexts	TextOptions[]	[]	Text watermarks to render.
quality	number (0–100)	100	JPEG quality.
filename	string	random	Output filename in cache dir.
saveFormat	'png' | 'jpg' | 'base64'	'jpg'	Output format.
maxSize	number	2048	Downscale source so neither side exceeds this.

ImageMarkOptions

Field	Type	Default	Description
backgroundImage	ImageOptions	—	Image to draw watermarks on.
watermarkImages	WatermarkImageOptions[]	—	One or more image watermarks.
quality	number	100	JPEG quality.
filename	string	random	Output filename in cache dir.
saveFormat	'png' | 'jpg' | 'base64'	'jpg'	Output format.
maxSize	number	2048	Downscale source so neither side exceeds this.

ImageOptions

interface ImageOptions {
  src: string;       // file:// | http(s):// | data: | bare base64
  scale?: number;    // default 1
  rotate?: number;   // degrees, default 0
  alpha?: number;    // 0..1, default 1
}

WatermarkImageOptions

Same as ImageOptions plus:

interface WatermarkImageOptions extends ImageOptions {
  position?: PositionOptions;
}

PositionOptions

Anchor a watermark either with an enum or with explicit coordinates.

interface PositionOptions {
  X?: number | string;   // px, or "10%" of background width
  Y?: number | string;   // px, or "10%" of background height
  position?: Position;   // takes precedence if set
}

enum Position {
  topLeft, topCenter, topRight,
  bottomLeft, bottomCenter, bottomRight,
  center,
}

TextOptions

interface TextOptions {
  text: string;
  position?: PositionOptions;
  style?: TextStyle;
}

TextStyle

interface TextStyle {
  color?: string;                     // CSS hex (#RGB, #RGBA, #RRGGBB, #RRGGBBAA)
  fontName?: string;
  fontSize?: number;                  // px / pt / sp
  shadowStyle?: ShadowLayerStyle | null;
  textBackgroundStyle?: TextBackgroundStyle | null;
  underline?: boolean;
  strikeThrough?: boolean;
  textAlign?: 'left' | 'center' | 'right';
  italic?: boolean;
  bold?: boolean;
  skewX?: number;                     // degrees, alternative to italic
  rotate?: number;                    // degrees around anchor
}

TextBackgroundStyle

A filled (optionally rounded) rectangle drawn behind the text.

interface TextBackgroundStyle extends Padding {
  type?: 'stretchX' | 'stretchY' | 'fit';   // default 'fit'
  color: string;
  cornerRadius?: CornerRadius;
}

Padding is CSS-like — any of these forms work:

{ padding: 10 }
{ padding: '10%' }
{ padding: '10 20' }
{ padding: '10% 20 30 40' }
{ paddingHorizontal: 12, paddingVertical: 8 }
{ paddingX: 12, paddingY: 8 }
{ paddingLeft: 8, paddingRight: 4, paddingTop: 2, paddingBottom: 2 }

CornerRadius accepts per-corner or an all shorthand:

{
  cornerRadius: {
    topLeft: { x: 8, y: 8 },
    topRight: { x: 8, y: 8 },
    all: { x: 4, y: 4 },        // applies to corners not set above
  }
}

ShadowLayerStyle

interface ShadowLayerStyle {
  dx: number;
  dy: number;
  radius: number;
  color: string;
}

Notes & caveats

• Coordinates are expressed in pixels of the background image (after any maxSize downscaling). '10%' values are resolved relative to the parent dimension (width for X/horizontal padding, height for Y/vertical padding).
• The default outer margin used by the enum Position values is 20px.
• On Web the output is always a data: URI (the browser has no file system to write to). The saveFormat still controls MIME type (PNG vs JPEG).
• iOS uses UIGraphicsImageRenderer; Android uses Bitmap + Canvas; Web uses <canvas> 2D.

License

MIT — see LICENSE and NOTICE.