Libvips High Performance Image Processing Library Cli

---
name: "libvips High-Performance Image Processing Library and CLI"
slug: "libvips-high-performance-image-processing-library-cli"
description: "libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library with over 300 operations. It processes images faster and with less memory than alternatives like ImageMagick, supports 20+ formats, and powers Sharp, Mastodon, imgproxy, and Ruby on Rails."
github_stars: 11197
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/libvips/libvips"
category: "Image & Creative Automation"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "libvips/libvips"
  github_stars: 11197
---

# libvips High-Performance Image Processing Library and CLI

libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library with over 300 operations. It processes images faster and with less memory than alternatives like ImageMagick, supports 20+ formats, and powers Sharp, Mastodon, imgproxy, and Ruby on Rails.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- | Python | [pyvips](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyvips) |
- | [sharp (on Node.js)](https://www.npmjs.org/package/sharp) |
- libvips must have build-essential, pkg-config, libglib2.0-dev,

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- There are packages for most Unix-like operating systems, including
- macOS. Check your package manager.
- There are binaries for Windows in

- Source: https://github.com/libvips/libvips
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libvips/libvips/HEAD/README.md

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