private BufferedImage scaleImage(int maxWidth, int maxHeight, ImageInputStream imageInputStream) throws IOException { final Optional<ImageReader> imageReader = ThumbnailUtil.getFirstImageReader(imageInputStream); if (!imageReader.isPresent()) { throw new IOException("Cannot read the image"); } final ImageReader reader = imageReader.get(); try { reader.setInput(imageInputStream); final ThumbnailDimension originalImageDimensions = new ThumbnailDimension(reader.getWidth(0), reader.getHeight(0)); final ThumbnailDimension scaledImageDimension = ThumbnailUtil.determineScaledDimensions(maxWidth, maxHeight, originalImageDimensions.getWidth(), originalImageDimensions.getHeight()); final int ratio = ThumbnailUtil.computeSubsamplingRatio(originalImageDimensions, scaledImageDimension, samplingFactor); final ImageReadParam param = reader.getDefaultReadParam(); param.setSourceSubsampling(ratio, ratio, 0, 0); final BufferedImage scaledImage = reader.read(0, param); //Subsampling does not return an exact size of an image - we need to resize it return scaleImage(scaledImage, scaledImageDimension); } finally { reader.dispose(); } }