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imgix vs scikit-image: What are the differences?
imgix: Real-time image resizing service and CDN. imgix is a real-time image processing service and CDN. Resize, crop, and edit images simply by changing their URLs; scikit-image: Image processing in Python. scikit-image is a collection of algorithms for image processing.
imgix and scikit-image can be primarily classified as "Image Processing and Management" tools.
Some of the features offered by imgix are:
- 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.
On the other hand, scikit-image provides the following key features:
- Provides I/O, filtering, morphology, transformations, measurement, annotation, color conversions, test data sets, etc.
- Written in Python with a well-commented source code
- Has had 5,709 commits made by 116 contributors representing 29,953 lines of code
"Image processing on demand" is the top reason why over 23 developers like imgix, while over 5 developers mention "More powerful" as the leading cause for choosing scikit-image.
scikit-image is an open source tool with 3.1K GitHub stars and 1.31K GitHub forks. Here's a link to scikit-image's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of imgix
- Image processing on demand28
- Easy setup24
- Smart Cropping18
- Reduce Development Costs18
- Efficient15
- Insanely Fast12
- Filters, resizing, blur and more as url parameters11
- Easy to understand pricing10
- Professional Features and Options9
- Lightyears better than ImageMagick6
- Excellent Face Detection6
- S3 as source5
- Scales to your company's needs4
- Great for Dynamic Compositing4
- Video encoding1
- Fast Image Delivery1
- Free tier1
- Amazing support1
- Great libraries and integrations1
- Automatic scrset generation1
Pros of scikit-image
- More powerful6
- Anaconda compatibility4
- Great documentation1