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I am trying to get histogram of an image using this code Displaying a histogram of image data. Normally it works fine when input image given by url. But while I give image from local directory 

private BufferedImage getImage() {
    try {
        return ImageIO.read(new URL(
            "F:/test.jpg"));
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace(System.err);
    }
    return null;
}

it gives exception,

 java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: f

How to resolve this exception and get Histogram of an image

Vishal Kawade
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F:/test.jpg is not a valid URL. For files the URL is file://F:/test.jpg where file is the protocol

Jens
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The protocol is not valid.

If you need to load a file from the filesystem you need to use the file URI scheme

A file URI takes the form of file://host/path

where host is the fully qualified domain name of the system on which the path is accessible, and path is a hierarchical directory path of the form directory/directory/.../name. If host is omitted, it is taken to be "localhost", the machine from which the URL is being interpreted.

So the url should be:

file://F:/test.jpg
Davide Lorenzo MARINO
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While the other answers will technically solve your problem, you shouldn't be using a URL for this. There are other signatures for the read function, one which takes a File and one which takes an InputStream instead, so you can use either of the following:

return ImageIO.read(new File("F:/test.jpg"));
// or
return ImageIO.read(new FileInputStream("F:/test.jpg"));
Michael
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