FreeImage vs GD

FreeImage

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

freeimage.sourceforge.net

GD

GD Graphics Library (by libgd)

#Image processing #Graphics #2D #Vector #Processing #Image #Cross-Platform #Windows #Linux #MacOS #C #Png #Jpeg #Webp #Heic #Avif #Bmp #Tiff

Source Code

libgd.org

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FreeImage		GD
	Project
1	Mentions	3
51	Stars	808
-	Growth	0.6%
0.0	Activity	3.5
almost 6 years ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

FreeImage

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning FreeImage yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

GD

Posts with mentions or reviews of GD. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-01.

Projects in need of JXL integration?
4 projects | /r/jpegxl | 1 Jan 2022

libgd: https://github.com/libgd/libgd/issues/699
I am a co-creator of JPEG XL (.jxl), a new image format. AMA!
4 projects | /r/AMA | 25 Jul 2021

I know libgd is also has interest in adding it at some point. https://github.com/libgd/libgd/issues/699

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FreeImage and GD you can also consider the following projects:

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

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

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

imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API

CImg - The CImg Library is a small and open-source C++ toolkit for image processing

CxImage

VTK - Mirror of Visualization Toolkit repository

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

ITK - Insight Toolkit (ITK) -- Official Repository. ITK builds on a proven, spatially-oriented architecture for processing, segmentation, and registration of scientific images in two, three, or more dimensions.

FreeImage vs OpenImageIO