davidbyttow/govips

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1654 stars · 216 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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govips is a Go library that wraps the libvips image processing library, exposing fast image operations like resizing, format conversion, and transformation through type-safe Go bindings. It leverages libvips's speed and low memory usage to enable high-throughput, concurrent image processing in Go services.

Use cases

• resize images in a Go web service
• convert images between jpeg, png, webp, and heic
• generate thumbnails at scale
• process svg and pdf files into raster images
• build a fast concurrent image processing pipeline in Go

When to choose

• you need high-performance image processing in Go with lower memory use than ImageMagick
• you handle many concurrent image resize/convert requests
• you need broad format support including webp, heif, tiff, and svg

When to avoid

• you need pure Go with no C dependencies
• you target native Windows without WSL, since it's not regularly tested there
• you only need simple one-off image edits where a pure-Go library suffices

Facets

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image-processing image-processing web-development go cross-platform libvips cgo image-resizing svg webp heic thumbnailing linux macos

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