On Jun 11, 2014, at 12:33 AM, Eyal Arubas wrote:

> I was looking for image processing modules which provide basic 
> functionalities (resize, crop, rotate, etc) without any external dependencies.
> I couldn't find any.
> All modules out there (that I know of) depend on a local installation of 
> ImageMagick et al.
> 
> So I started looking into rolling my own module which wraps the CImg C++ 
> library. But then I discovered that it, too, depends on ImageMagick (at least 
> for reading JPEGs).
> 
> So my questions are:
>       * Is there such a module out there?
>       * If not, I would like to implement one.
>               * Any suggestion about how I should go about it?
>               * Which is a good C++ image library without pre-required 
> dependencies that I can wrap?
> I considered OpenCV and QT's QImage, but both are quite large, and not 
> specifically oriented towards basic image processing.
> 
> I realize that installing ImageMagick on a server isn't that big a deal. But 
> I want to use the intended module in a node-webkit application (client); and 
> I don't want to tell my users to install ImageMagick before they can use my 
> software.

You could look into the canvas module.

https://www.npmjs.org/package/canvas

However, although it doesn't depend on ImageMagick, it does need cairo.

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