This package wraps the core functionality of libvips image processing library by exposing all image operations on first-class types in Go. Additionally, it exposes raw access to call operations directly, for forward compatibility.

How fast is libvips? See this: Speed and Memory Use

This library was inspired primarily based on the C++ wrapper in libvips.

The intent for this is to enable developers to build extremely fast image processors in Go, which is suited well for concurrent requests.

Libvips is generally 4-8x faster than other graphics processors such as GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick.