ImageJ is reputed to be faster than JAI, my experience with it is that it has an easier interface to program.
It is certainly possible to add text to images via ImageJ, you might like to have a look at the work that's been done by Benoit Hediard at:
http://www.benorama.com/coldfusion/components/imaging.htm
He's built a cfc interface to ImageJ that's very interesting, if my memory serves me correctly the cfc does text amongst other things.
Andrew
Ian Welsh wrote:
Has anyone compared the speed and robustness of any image manipulation libraries?
I have tried the included Farcry methods (with ImageJ) - works fine, but need to add text to some images.
I then tried Macromedia's Jimg (DRK 4) which uses Sun's JAI - works fine but I have 'heard' JAI is slow.
I have also 'heard' good things about efflare's cfx_imagecr but have not tried it yet (commercial).
Anyway, my production system will need to handle many frequently large images - has anyone experience of any of these packages (good/bad) in a high volume production environment?
Thanks in advance.
Ian Welsh
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