libvips VS GD

Compare libvips vs GD and see what are their differences.

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libvips GD
23 3
8,909 873
1.9% 1.8%
9.2 6.3
8 days ago about 1 month ago
C C
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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libvips

Posts with mentions or reviews of libvips. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-09.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API

sharp - High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library.

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

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

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

FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

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

CxImage