There are lots of plugins that do this one way or another including:
- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dynamic-image-resizer/
I wouldn’t recommend reinventing the wheel. If you’re particularly worried about it, you might looking into TGM Plugin Activation to suggest to people in the Dashboard that they install and use the plugin.
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