libvips High-Performance Image Processing Library and CLI
libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library with over 300 operations. It processes images faster and with less memory than alternatives like ImageMagick, supports 20+ formats, and powers Sharp, Mastodon, imgproxy, and Ruby on Rails.
Installation
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- | Python | pyvips |
- | sharp (on Node.js) |
- libvips must have build-essential, pkg-config, libglib2.0-dev,
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
There are packages for most Unix-like operating systems, including
macOS. Check your package manager.
There are binaries for Windows in
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libvips/libvips/HEAD/README.md