CImg VS OpenCV

Compare CImg vs OpenCV 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 OpenCV
3 196
1,419 75,423
1.7% 1.4%
9.3 9.9
8 days ago 1 day ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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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.

OpenCV

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenCV. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-13.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CImg and OpenCV you can also consider the following projects:

imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API

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

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

VTK - Mirror of Visualization Toolkit repository

Boost.GIL - Boost.GIL - Generic Image Library | Requires C++14 since Boost 1.80

yolov5 - YOLOv5 🚀 in PyTorch > ONNX > CoreML > TFLite

EasyOCR - Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.

CxImage

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

SimpleCV - The Open Source Framework for Machine Vision