Small [Go](http://golang.org) library for fast high-level image processing and transformation using [libvips](https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips) via C bindings. It provides a simple, elegant and fluent [programmatic API](#examples).
bimg was designed to be a small and efficient library with a generic and useful features.
bimg was designed to be a small and efficient library providing a generic and common high-level [image operations](#supported-image-operations) such as crop, resize, rotate, zoom, watermark...
It can read JPEG, PNG, WEBP and TIFF formats and output to JPEG, PNG and WEBP, including conversion between them.
It uses internally libvips, a powerful library written in C for binary image processing which requires a [low memory footprint](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Speed_and_Memory_Use)
and it's typically 4x faster than using the quickest ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick settings or Go native `image` package, and in some cases it's even 8x faster processing JPEG images.
It can read JPEG, PNG, WEBP and TIFF formats and output to JPEG, PNG and WEBP, including conversion between them. It supports common [image operations](#supported-image-operations) such as crop, resize, rotate, zoom, watermark...
For getting started, take a look to the [examples](#examples) and [API](https://godoc.org/github.com/h2non/bimg) documentation.
If you're looking for a HTTP-based image processing solution, see [imaginary](https://github.com/h2non/imaginary).
If you're looking for a HTTP based image processing solution, see [imaginary](https://github.com/h2non/imaginary).
bimg was heavily inspired in [sharp](https://github.com/lovell/sharp), its homologous package built for node.js by [Lovell Fuller](https://github.com/lovell).
Tomás Aparicio
11 years ago