My intuition says that everything from var imageData = …
should go into the img.onload
function.
That means, at the relevant part the code becomes:
img.onload = function() {
canvas.width = width;
canvas.height = height;
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0, width, height);
var imageData = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
document.body.appendChild(canvas); //picture gets uploaded
// Generate the image data
var Pic = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
console.log(Pic); // => returns base64 value which when tested equivalent to blank
Pic = Pic.replace(/^data:image\/(png|jpg);base64,/, "")
// Sending image to Server
$.ajax({
// …
});
};
img.src = datauri;
The reason is that the line
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0, width, height);
correctly executes after the image has been loaded. But unfortunately, you don’t wait for loading when this line gets executed:
var imageData = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
and all subsequent lines.
The image needs to be loaded in order to draw it on the canvas. The canvas needs to contain the loaded image in order to call getImageData
.