Java Spark Tips, Tricks and Basics 1 – How to read images as Datasets / Dataframes from Hadoop in Spark Java

This tutorial will show you how to read a folder of images from a Hadoop folder.

We will be using Image Schema and it’s readImages function.

Dataset<Row> images = ImageSchema.readImages("hdfs://IP:port/path/to/image/folder", spark, false, 0, true, 1.0, 1);

1	Dataset<Row> images = ImageSchema.readImages("hdfs://IP:port/path/to/image/folder", spark, false, 0, true, 1.0, 1);

That’s it already!