imaginary
Self-hosted microservice for on-demand image processing
imaginary is a fast, self-hosted HTTP microservice for high-level image processing, built on libvips. It performs resizing, cropping, format conversion, and more, and is commonly used as an image backend for self-hosted photo and media apps.
Key features
- On-demand image transformation
- libvips-based performance
- HTTP API
- Stateless microservice
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Very fast processing
- Easy to scale
Trade-offs
- Backend service only
- No UI
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