Question

computer science: software engineer class

working on a group project and one of the requirements is:

"Thumbnails need to be computed automatically using some open-source thumbnail generation SW – you can do thumbnails later after you figure out the basic way to show an image"

Never used an open-source thumbnail generation SW. Was wondering if someone can give me more information on that.

Answer 1

Thumbnor is one of the best open source software for thumbnail generation.

Thumbor is a smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, resizing and flipping of images.

It also features a very smart detection of important points in the image for better cropping and resizing, using state-of-the-art face and feature detection algorithms (more on that in Detection Algorithms).

Using thumbor is very easy (after it is running). All you have to do is access it using an URL for an image, like this:

http://<thumbor-server>/300x200/smart/thumbor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_images/logo-thumbor.png

That URL would show an image of the big brother brasil participants in 300x200 using smart crop.

It is an open source software, I'll attach the link to it below

https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor