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Kraken.io vs scikit-image: What are the differences?
Developers describe Kraken.io as "Image optimization and compression API". 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. On the other hand, scikit-image is detailed as "Image processing in Python". scikit-image is a collection of algorithms for image processing.
Kraken.io and scikit-image can be primarily classified as "Image Processing and Management" tools.
Some of the features offered by Kraken.io are:
- Developer-Friendly API
- WordPress Plugin
- Dedicated Infrastructure
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
"Free" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Kraken.io, 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 Kraken.io
- Free6
- Magento plugin1
Pros of scikit-image
- More powerful6
- Anaconda compatibility4
- Great documentation2