imaging VS govips

Compare imaging vs govips and see what are their differences.

imaging

Imaging is a simple image processing package for Go (by disintegration)

govips

A lightning fast image processing and resizing library for Go (by davidbyttow)
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imaging govips
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5,039 1,112
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0.0 7.1
6 months ago 8 days ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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imaging

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

govips

Posts with mentions or reviews of govips. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-28.
  • Just In Time Image Optimization at Reddit Scale
    3 projects | /r/RedditEng | 28 Jun 2023
    We chose to use govips which is a cgo wrapper around the libvips image manipulation library. The majority of new development for services in our backend is written using baseplate.go. But Go is not an ideal choice for media processing as it cannot keep up with the performance of native code. The most widely used image-processing libraries like libmagick are primarily written in C or C++. Speed was a major factor in selecting libvips in order to keep latency low on CDN cache misses for images. In our tests, libvips was 3–4 times faster than libmagick on basic image processing operations. Content-aware smart cropping was implemented by porting smartcrop.js to Go. This is the only operation implemented in pure Go.
  • Image manipulation with Go
    8 projects | /r/golang | 31 Dec 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing imaging and govips you can also consider the following projects:

bimg - Go package for fast high-level image processing powered by libvips C library

imaginary - Fast, simple, scalable, Docker-ready HTTP microservice for high-level image processing

gocv - Go package for computer vision using OpenCV 4 and beyond.

resize - Pure golang image resizing

fastimage - Finds the type and/or size of a remote image given its uri, by fetching as little as needed.

Primitive Pictures - Reproducing images with geometric primitives.

bild - Image processing algorithms in pure Go

gg - Go Graphics - 2D rendering in Go with a simple API.

geopattern - :triangular_ruler: Create beautiful generative image patterns from a string in golang.