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Fast, simple, scalable, Docker-ready HTTP microservice for high-level image processing

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2017-06-22 · latest 2025-08-21

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    Imaginary: Fast HTTP microservice for high-level image processing
    story by klaussilveira · 2025-08-21 · 0 comments
  2. …jemalloc the top 3 from https://github.com/topics/resize-images (as of 2025-06-13) imaginary: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/blob/1d4e251cfcd58ea66f83... imgproxy: https://web.archive.org/web/20210412004544/https://docs.imgp... (linked…
    comment by thewisenerd · 2025-06-13 · in Jemalloc Postmortem
  3. …imaginary tool [1], offering similar functionality and much more, also using libvips [1] https://github.com/h2non/imaginary
    comment by svacko · 2021-12-10 · in Imagor: A fast, Docker-ready image processing server written in Go
  4. …Most people we've worked with want to run run apps they've already written (or open source like https://github.com/h2non/imaginary ).
    comment by mrkurt · 2020-03-18 · in Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
  5. …via workers (dpi matters for things like "fit" even if you use srcset) and transpose images off-workers (github.com/h2non/imaginary). Will do testing and see how they match up in terms of quality.
    comment by jbergstroem · 2019-05-15 · in Cloudflare Image Resizing: Simplifying Optimal Image Delivery
  6. …been using a self hosted option called Imaginary [0] but am getting tired of self hosting it. [0] https://github.com/h2non/imaginary
    comment by leesalminen · 2019-03-24 · in Essential Image Optimization
  7. …mails - i hate physical paper - SOLR to index the output of the above mentioned data - Imaginary ( https://github.com/h2non/imaginary ) for image pre-processing of the scanned mails / documents. Its much more lightweight than imagemagick.…
    comment by denvrede · 2018-07-26 · in Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?
  8. https://github.com/h2non/imaginary appears to support quality/compression settings.
    comment by silasb · 2017-06-22 · in Ask HN: Best Self-Hosted, Server-Side Image Optimization Tools?