3 Methods of Automatic Image Generation: Image Generation API, Libraries, and Puppeteer Screenshots

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  • The next option is to use an image generation library and implement the full solution yourself. Libraries like ImageMagick, Python Imaging Library (PIL), and Sharp in Node.js provide an API for image processing. Such libraries are typically used for resizing, cropping, changing image format, compressing images, etc.

  • sharp

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

  • The next option is to use an image generation library and implement the full solution yourself. Libraries like ImageMagick, Python Imaging Library (PIL), and Sharp in Node.js provide an API for image processing. Such libraries are typically used for resizing, cropping, changing image format, compressing images, etc.

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    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • puppeteer

    Node.js API for Chrome

  • Another possible option is to build your design by adding texts and overlapping images directly using HTML. You can open this HTML page in the browser programmatically using a library like Puppeteer and then generate a final image by taking a screenshot of the opened page.

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