Scrimage is a Scala image library for manipulating and processing of images. The aim of the this library is to provide a quick and easy way to do the kinds of image operations that most people need, such as scaling, rotating, converting between formats and applying filters. It is not intended to provide functionality that might be required by a more "serious" image application - such as face recognition or movement tracking.
Scrimage is a Scala image library for manipulating and processing of images. The aim of the this library is to provide a quick and easy way to do the kinds of image operations that most people need, such as scaling, rotating, converting between formats and applying filters. It is not intended to provide functionality that might be required by a more "serious" image application - such as face recognition or movement tracking.
A typical use case for this library would be creating thumbnails of images uploaded by users in a web app, or resizing a set of images to have a consistent size, or optimizing PNG uploads by users to apply maximum compression, or applying a grayscale filter in a print application.
Scrimage has a consistent, idiomatic scala, and mostly immutable API that builds on the java.awt.Image methods. I say mostly immutable because for some operations creating a copy of the underlying image would prove expensive (think an in place filter on a 8000 x 6000 image where you do not care about keeping the original in memory). For these kinds of operations Scrimage supports a MutableImage instance where operations that can be performed in place mutate the original instead of returning a copy.
