CImg VS Boost.GIL

Compare CImg vs Boost.GIL and see what are their differences.

CImg

The CImg Library is a small and open-source C++ toolkit for image processing (by GreycLab)
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CImg Boost.GIL
3 -
1,419 171
1.7% 1.2%
9.3 4.2
11 days ago 8 days ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Boost Software License 1.0
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CImg

Posts with mentions or reviews of CImg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.

Boost.GIL

Posts with mentions or reviews of Boost.GIL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CImg and Boost.GIL you can also consider the following projects:

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API

FreeImage - A custom distribution of FreeImage, with a CMake-based build system. Used by the Athena Game Framework.

OpenImageIO - Reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats, using a format-agnostic API, aimed at VFX applications.

libvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

VTK - Mirror of Visualization Toolkit repository

CxImage

tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)