An API service designed for developers building applications with rich file preview capabilities. We generate an image preview of every page, layer, OCR text, EXIF metadata and much more

Features

• Generate thumbnails for over 50 file formats
• Generate thumbnails of multi-page documents
• Extract Photoshop layers
• Extract OCR text
• Extract EXIF metadata
• Extract multimedia metadata from audio and video files
• Generate thumbnails for RAW format images
• Generate screenshots for websites

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Kraken supports JPEG, PNG and GIF files. You can optimize your images in two ways – by providing an URL of the image you want to optimize or by uploading an image file directly to Kraken API.

Features

• Developer-Friendly API
• WordPress Plugin
• Dedicated Infrastructure
• First Class Compression
• S3, CloudFiles and Azure
• Lossy Optimization Options
• Image Resizing
• Free Web Interface
• Great User Support

 
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What Users Say

“They rip out the stuff in the images that you don’t need or want, optimize them and return the smallest possible file they can make from your image without losing any quality.” Tuts+

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Blitline drastically reduces the amount of work you need to develop an application that does any image processing. Stop rebuilding the same image processing functionality, let us do it for much less than it would cost you to make and support it. Pay for only the image processing time that your jobs use. We believe your images should be YOUR images. We also believe that you should never be “locked in” to using Blitline. The flexibility of the JSON API means you could stub out Blitline later without ever touching your production/deployed code.

Features

• Industrial Strength- If you are a website that needs to manipulate large numbers of photos, Blitline is your economical solution.
• Convenient- If you are importing photos from an external service and need to crop, thumbnail, or process them, we are your answer.
• Versatile- Screenshots, PDFs, animated GIFs, obscure image formats, we are your one stop shop for all of these.
• Cheap- No lock-in with us. We push your photos to your storage. We don’t want to host your photos and charge you a monthly fee.
• Cross Platform- We use a JSON only API that lets you build complex image processing actions accessible from any language or platform
• Safe- Worried about making a dependency on a company that might “go away”. Founded in 2011, we have been cash positive for quite some time.
• Smart- We have been building large scale, enterprise apps for decades. We are your smart choice.
• Low Risk- Pay ONLY for what you use. Even when your service explodes and you are processing huge amounts of images, you get deep discounts for using Blitline.

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Aviary’s beautiful photo editor is powerful, customizable, and can be plugged into your mobile apps and website in minutes. The best photo editing for your app or website Our 3500+ partners chose Aviary because our editor is powerful, customizable, and integration takes just minutes. Aviary comes preloaded with a ton of intuitive features that your users will love.

Features

• Enhance
• Effects Frames
• Stickers
• Crop
• Resize
• Orientation
• Brightness
• Contrast
• Saturation
• Warmth
• Sharpness
• Splash
• Draw
• Text
• Redeye
• Whiten
• Blemish
• Meme

 
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OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real-time applications. Written in optimized C/C++, the library can take advantage of multi-core processing. Enabled with OpenCL, it can take advantage of the hardware acceleration of the underlying heterogeneous compute platform.

Features

• C++, C, Python and Java interfaces and supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS, iOS and Android
• More than 47 thousand people of user community and estimated number of downloads exceeding 7 million
• Usage ranges from interactive art, to mines inspection, stitching maps on the web or through advanced robotics

 
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imgix is a real-time image processing service and CDN. Resize, crop, and edit images simply by changing their URLs.

Features

• Process Images – Resize, crop, and composite multiple images simply by changing their URLs.
• Optimize Images – Change output formats, device-pixel ratios, and chroma subsampling rates.
• Make Images Responsive – Easily integrate imgix into the latest HTML5 responsive image standards without reprocessing your entire image library.
• Deliver Quickly – Leverage the imgix global CDN with more than 20 POPs worldwide to ensure speedy delivery anywhere in the world.

 
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What Users Say

‘imgix saves at least 100 kB per image by helping us serve the right size and format for each device.” Kevin Stone, Eventbrite

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Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that streamlines websites and mobile applications’ entire image and video management needs – uploads, storage, administration, manipulations, and delivery.

Features

• Upload images to a cloud-based storage
• Upload video to cloud-based storage
• Automatic backup and revision tracking
• Many image manipulation capabilities & effects
• Smart resizing & face detection based thumbnails
• Handling PDFs, sprites, watermarks, social profile pictures
• Fast CDN delivery with advanced caching
• Automatic image optimization
• Powerful dashboard, media library and reports
• RESTful APIs, intuitive URL based transformations
• Image metadata and semantic data extraction
• Integration SDKs for web & mobile frameworks
• Custom domain (CNAME) support
• Authenticated URLs
• On-the-fly Video transcoding
• On-the-fly Video overlays

 
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What Users Say

“Cloudinary image management is totally unique, Love it. Saved us lot of dev time. Must Try” Sneha Mamadapur, CEO, Heylos

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