Small Go library for blazing fast and efficient image processing based on libvips using C bindings. It provides a clean, simple and fluent API.
bimg was designed to be a small and efficient library with a generic and useful features.
It uses internally libvips, a powerful library written in C for binary image processing which requires a low memory footprint
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 such as crop, resize, rotate, zoom, watermark...
For getting started, take a look to the examples and programmatic API documentation. If you're looking for a HTTP-based image processing solution, see imaginary.
bimg was heavily inspired in sharp, its homologous package built for node.js by Lovell Fuller.
Note: bimg is still beta. Do not use in compromised environments yet
- libvips v7.40.0+ (7.42.0+ recommended)
- C compatible compiler such as gcc 4.6+ or clang 3.0+
- Go 1.3+
go get -u gopkg.in/h2non/bimg.v0Run the following script as sudo (supports OSX, Debian/Ubuntu, Redhat, Fedora, Amazon Linux):
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lovell/sharp/master/preinstall.sh | sudo bash -The install script requires curl and pkg-config
- Resize
- Enlarge
- Crop
- Rotate (with auto-rotate based on EXIF orientation)
- Flip (with auto-flip based on EXIF metadata)
- Flop
- Zoom
- Thumbnail
- Extract area
- Watermark (fully customizable text-based)
- Format conversion (with additional quality/compression settings)
- EXIF metadata (size, alpha channel, profile, orientation...)
libvips is probably the faster open source solution for image processing. Here you can see some performance test comparisons for multiple scenarios:
Tested using Go 1.4.2 and libvips-7.42.3 in OSX i7 2.7Ghz
BenchmarkResizeLargeJpeg 50 43400480 ns/op
BenchmarkResizePng 20 57592174 ns/op
BenchmarkResizeWebP 500 2872295 ns/op
BenchmarkConvertToJpeg 30 41835497 ns/op
BenchmarkConvertToPng 10 153382204 ns/op
BenchmarkConvertToWebp 10000 264542 ns/op
BenchmarkCropJpeg 30 52267699 ns/op
BenchmarkCropPng 30 56477454 ns/op
BenchmarkCropWebP 5000 274302 ns/op
BenchmarkExtractJpeg 50 27827670 ns/op
BenchmarkExtractPng 2000 769761 ns/op
BenchmarkExtractWebp 3000 513954 ns/op
BenchmarkZoomJpeg 10 159272494 ns/op
BenchmarkZoomPng 20 65771476 ns/op
BenchmarkZoomWebp 5000 368327 ns/op
BenchmarkWatermarkJpeg 100 10026033 ns/op
BenchmarkWatermarPng 200 7350821 ns/op
BenchmarkWatermarWebp 200 9014197 ns/op
ok 30.698s
import (
"fmt"
"os"
"gopkg.in/h2non/bimg.v0"
)buffer, err := bimg.Read("image.jpg")
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
}
newImage, err := bimg.NewImage(buffer).Resize(800, 600)
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
}
size, err := bimg.NewImage(newImage).Size()
if size.Width == 400 && size.Height == 300 {
fmt.Println("The image size is valid")
}
bimg.Write("new.jpg", newImage)buffer, err := bimg.Read("image.jpg")
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
}
newImage, err := bimg.NewImage(buffer).Rotate(90)
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
}
bimg.Write("new.jpg", newImage)buffer, err := bimg.Read("image.jpg")
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
}
newImage, err := bimg.NewImage(buffer).Convert(bimg.PNG)
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
}
if bimg.NewImage(newImage).Type() == "png" {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "The image was converted into png")
}See Options struct to discover all the available fields
options := bimg.Options{
Width: 800,
Height: 600,
Crop: true,
Quality: 95,
Rotate: 180,
}
buffer, err := bimg.Read("image.jpg")
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
}
newImage, err := bimg.NewImage(buffer).Process(options)
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
}
bimg.Write("new.jpg", newImage)buffer, err := bimg.Read("image.jpg")
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
}
options := bimg.Watermark{
Watermark{
Text: "Chuck Norris (c) 2315",
Opacity: 0.25,
Width: 200,
DPI: 100,
Margin: 150,
Font: "sans bold 12",
Background: bimg.Color{255, 255, 255},
}
}
newImage, err := bimg.NewImage(buffer).Watermark(options)
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
}
bimg.Write("new.jpg", newImage)buffer, err := bimg.Read("image.jpg")
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
}
image := bimg.NewImage(buffer)
// first crop image
_, err := image.CropByWidth(300)
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
}
// then flip it
newImage, err := image.Flip()
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
}
// save the cropped and flipped image
bimg.Write("new.jpg", newImage)Run the process passing the DEBUG environment variable
DEBUG=* ./app
Enable libvips traces (note that a lot of data will be written in stdout):
VIPS_TRACE=1 ./app
func DetermineImageTypeName(buf []byte) stringDetermines the image type format by name (jpeg, png, webp or tiff)
func Initialize()Explicit thread-safe start of libvips. Only call this function if you've previously shutdown libvips
func IsTypeNameSupported(t string) boolCheck if a given image type name is supported
func IsTypeSupported(t ImageType) boolCheck if a given image type is supported
func Read(path string) ([]byte, error)func Resize(buf []byte, o Options) ([]byte, error)func Shutdown()Thread-safe function to shutdown libvips. You could call this to drop caches as well. If libvips was already initialized, the function is no-op
func VipsDebug()Output to stdout vips collected data. Useful for debugging
func Write(path string, buf []byte) errortype Angle intconst (
D0 Angle = C.VIPS_ANGLE_D0
D90 Angle = C.VIPS_ANGLE_D90
D180 Angle = C.VIPS_ANGLE_D180
D270 Angle = C.VIPS_ANGLE_D270
)type Color struct {
R, G, B uint8
}Color represents a traditional RGB color scheme
type Direction intconst (
HORIZONTAL Direction = C.VIPS_DIRECTION_HORIZONTAL
VERTICAL Direction = C.VIPS_DIRECTION_VERTICAL
)type Gravity intconst (
CENTRE Gravity = iota
NORTH
EAST
SOUTH
WEST
)type Image struct {
}func NewImage(buf []byte) *ImageCreates a new image
func (i *Image) Convert(t ImageType) ([]byte, error)Convert image to another format
func (i *Image) Crop(width, height int, gravity Gravity) ([]byte, error)Crop the image to the exact size specified
func (i *Image) CropByHeight(height int) ([]byte, error)Crop an image by height (auto width)
func (i *Image) CropByWidth(width int) ([]byte, error)Crop an image by width (auto height)
func (i *Image) Enlarge(width, height int) ([]byte, error)Enlarge the image from the by X/Y axis
func (i *Image) Extract(top, left, width, height int) ([]byte, error)Extract area from the by X/Y axis
func (i *Image) Flip() ([]byte, error)Flip the image about the vertical Y axis
func (i *Image) Flop() ([]byte, error)Flop the image about the horizontal X axis
func (i *Image) Image() []byteGet image buffer
func (i *Image) Metadata() (ImageMetadata, error)Get image metadata (size, alpha channel, profile, EXIF rotation)
func (i *Image) Process(o Options) ([]byte, error)Transform the image by custom options
func (i *Image) Resize(width, height int) ([]byte, error)Resize the image to fixed width and height
func (i *Image) Rotate(a Angle) ([]byte, error)Rotate the image by given angle degrees (0, 90, 180 or 270)
func (i *Image) Size() (ImageSize, error)Get image size
func (i *Image) Thumbnail(pixels int) ([]byte, error)Thumbnail the image by the a given width by aspect ratio 4:4
func (i *Image) Type() stringGet image type format (jpeg, png, webp, tiff)
func (i *Image) Watermark(w Watermark) ([]byte, error)Add text as watermark on the given image
func (i *Image) Zoom(factor int) ([]byte, error)Zoom the image by the given factor. You should probably call Extract() before
type ImageMetadata struct {
Orientation int
Channels int
Alpha bool
Profile bool
Type string
Space string
Size ImageSize
}func Metadata(buf []byte) (ImageMetadata, error)Extract the image metadata (size, type, alpha channel, profile, EXIF orientation...)
type ImageSize struct {
Width int
Height int
}func Size(buf []byte) (ImageSize, error)Get the image size by width and height pixels
type ImageType intconst (
UNKNOWN ImageType = iota
JPEG
WEBP
PNG
TIFF
MAGICK
)func DetermineImageType(buf []byte) ImageTypeDetermines the image type format (jpeg, png, webp or tiff)
type Interpolator intconst (
BICUBIC Interpolator = iota
BILINEAR
NOHALO
)func (i Interpolator) String() stringtype Options struct {
Height int
Width int
AreaHeight int
AreaWidth int
Top int
Left int
Extend int
Quality int
Compression int
Zoom int
Crop bool
Enlarge bool
Embed bool
Flip bool
Flop bool
NoAutoRotate bool
Rotate Angle
Gravity Gravity
Watermark Watermark
Type ImageType
Interpolator Interpolator
}type VipsMemoryInfo struct {
Memory int64
MemoryHighwater int64
Allocations int64
}func VipsMemory() VipsMemoryInfoGet memory info stats from vips (cache size, memory allocs...)
type Watermark struct {
Width int
DPI int
Margin int
Opacity float32
NoReplicate bool
Text string
Font string
Background Color
}MIT - Tomas Aparicio
