Blame for apps/api/src/services/expense/shared/image-processing.ts

import sharp from 'sharp'

const MAX_DIMENSION = 1800
const JPEG_QUALITY = 80

// Shared by every image-ingestion entry point (slip queue, payment-slip
// reconciliation, ad-hoc expense parsing) — runs before any LLM call and
// before any persistence. sharp strips EXIF on re-encode by default, which
// also drops embedded GPS data as a privacy side-benefit.
export async function compressImage(base64: string): Promise<string> {
  const inputBuffer = Buffer.from(base64, 'base64')
  const outputBuffer = await sharp(inputBuffer)
    .resize(MAX_DIMENSION, MAX_DIMENSION, { fit: 'inside', withoutEnlargement: true })
    .jpeg({ quality: JPEG_QUALITY })
    .toBuffer()
  return outputBuffer.toString('base64')
}

// Cheap real-image check — reads only the header (via sharp's metadata
// probe), not the full pixel data, so it's far cheaper than compressImage.
// Used at enqueue time now that compression itself has moved to after OCR
// succeeds (see slip-queue.service.ts), so something still rejects a
// non-image upload immediately instead of silently queuing it.
export async function validateImage(base64: string): Promise<void> {
  await sharp(Buffer.from(base64, 'base64')).metadata()
}