Java tutorial
import java.awt.Image; import java.awt.Toolkit; import java.awt.image.PixelGrabber; public class Main { static boolean isGreyscaleImage(PixelGrabber pg) { return pg.getPixels() instanceof byte[]; } public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { Image image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("inFile.png"); PixelGrabber grabber = new PixelGrabber(image, 0, 0, -1, -1, false); if (grabber.grabPixels()) { int width = grabber.getWidth(); int height = grabber.getHeight(); if (isGreyscaleImage(grabber)) { byte[] data = (byte[]) grabber.getPixels(); } else { int[] data = (int[]) grabber.getPixels(); } } } }