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Blitline

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imgix

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Pros of Blitline
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      Easy setup
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      Fast image delivery
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      Vast array of image manipulation capabilities
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      Free tier
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      Heroku add-on
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      Reduce development costs
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      Amazing support
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      Heroku plugin
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      Great libraries for all languages
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      Virtually limitless scale
    • 5
      Easy to integrate with Rails
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      Cheap
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      Shot setup time
    • 3
      Very easy setup
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      Solves alot of image problems.
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      Best in the market and includes free plan
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      Extremely generous free pricing tier
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      Fast image delivery, vast array
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      Image processing on demand
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      Easy setup
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      Smart Cropping
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      Reduce Development Costs
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      Efficient
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      Insanely Fast
    • 11
      Filters, resizing, blur and more as url parameters
    • 10
      Easy to understand pricing
    • 9
      Professional Features and Options
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      Lightyears better than ImageMagick
    • 6
      Excellent Face Detection
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      S3 as source
    • 4
      Scales to your company's needs
    • 4
      Great for Dynamic Compositing
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      Video encoding
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      Fast Image Delivery
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      Free tier
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      Amazing support
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      Great libraries and integrations
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      Automatic scrset generation

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        Paid plan is expensive
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        What is Blitline?

        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.

        What is Cloudinary?

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

        What is imgix?

        imgix is the leading platform for end-to-end visual media processing. With robust APIs, SDKs, and integrations, imgix empowers developers to optimize, transform, manage, and deliver images and videos at scale through simple URL parameters.

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        What are some alternatives to Blitline, Cloudinary, and imgix?
        OpenCV
        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.
        Pillow
        It adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. It provides extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and fairly powerful image processing capabilities.
        FFMPEG
        The universal multimedia toolkit.
        scikit-image
        scikit-image is a collection of algorithms for image processing.
        ImageMagick
        It is a free and open-source software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image and vector image files. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 200) including PNG, JPEG, GIF, HEIC, TIFF, DPX, EXR, WebP, Postscript, PDF, and SVG.
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