# alibaba/simpleimage

Repository: https://github.com/alibaba/simpleimage
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/alibaba-simpleimage
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2018-03-08T12:49:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5249, "days_push": 3100, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1001, forks 377 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:08.967118+00:00)

## What it is
SimpleImage is Alibaba's open-source Java image processing library, providing common operations such as scaling, cropping, rotation, format conversion, and watermarking on top of Java's imaging APIs. It packages these operations behind a simple streaming API for server-side image manipulation.

## Use cases
- generate thumbnails from uploaded images in a Java web app
- add watermarks to product photos
- crop and resize images server-side
- convert images between formats like JPEG and PNG
- batch-process images in a Java service

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight pure-Java image manipulation library on the JVM
- you want simple resize/crop/watermark operations without native dependencies
- you're maintaining an existing Java stack that already uses it

## When to avoid
- you need modern formats like WebP or AVIF with broad codec support
- you want an actively maintained project with recent releases
- you need GPU-accelerated or high-performance bulk image processing
- you're not on the JVM

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing
- domain: image-processing, media
- platform: jvm, cross-platform
- tags: java, images, thumbnail, watermark, graphics

## Member repositories
- alibaba/simpleimage (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:08.967118+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:16:05.039621+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/alibaba/simpleimage (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:08.967118+00:00, sha c17929177726)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.