imaginary vs bimg

imaginary

Fast, simple, scalable, Docker-ready HTTP microservice for high-level image processing (by h2non)

#Images #Image #Image processing #resize-images #Libvips #crop-image #Microservice #Docker #Watermark #Jpeg #Png #Webp #GIF

Source Code

fly.io

bimg

Go package for fast high-level image processing powered by libvips C library (by h2non)

#Images #Libvips #Golang #Watermark #crop-image #Image #Processing #Resize #Jpeg #Png #Webp #Crop

Source Code

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imaginary		bimg
	Project
5	Mentions	5
4,968	Stars	2,263
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
5 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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imaginary

Posts with mentions or reviews of imaginary. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-02.

Announcing Nextcloud Hub 3 – Brand New Design and Photos 2.0 with Editor and AI
6 projects | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 2 Oct 2022

One thing I didn't mention that AIO includes is a container called imaginary which is written in Go and processes images. I think this is mainly used here for generating image previews in NC.
Imagor 0.8.5: fast image processing server - now with animated GIF resize, crop, watermark and more
3 projects | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 30 Jan 2022

Thanks. This is new to me. How is it different from https://github.com/h2non/imaginary?
Imagor is a fast, Docker-ready image processing server written in Go
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Dec 2021

There is also battle-tested imaginary tool [1], offering similar functionality and much more, also using libvips
[1] https://github.com/h2non/imaginary

bimg

Posts with mentions or reviews of bimg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-09.

Go Image Converting
3 projects | reddit.com/r/golang | 9 Mar 2023

h2non/bimg can handle both if the underlying libvips is compiled with support for both formats.
What is the coolest Go open source projects you have seen?
84 projects | reddit.com/r/golang | 15 Sep 2022

bimg
WASM instead of C Dependencies?
9 projects | dev.to | 14 Jan 2022

I have web applications written in Rust and Go that need some basic image processing (reading JPEGs, PNGs, writing JPEGs, WebPs, AVIFs and resizing). This is something I always struggle with, because most libraries for image processing are written in C (libpng, libwebp, mozjpeg; or higher-level ones like vips). While there are usually dependencies in each language build on top of those C dependencies, like bimg for Go, I don’t like having C dependencies in a Rust, Go or even Node.js projects.
Image manipulation with Go
8 projects | reddit.com/r/golang | 31 Dec 2021
Image Compression with Golang
6 projects | dev.to | 28 Aug 2021

For image processing, I will use the bimg library because in my opinion it has a very intuitive API and is easy to use, in addition to being very fast.