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Ask HN: Image processing as a service (IpAAS?)

5 points| puppymaster | 14 years ago | reply

With all the client-side infrastructure as a services that are popping out lately, I think it is an exciting time to be able to put up a quick prototype and host the entire thing in a CDN.

But some things still require non-JS, backend infrastructure to run. Image processing for one. Do you peeps know of any service out there that does image processing as a service and also happen to provide a javascript sdk or REST api?

Thanks in advance!

6 comments

[+] tzm|14 years ago|reply

Look into Iron.io http://blog.iron.io/2012/05/best-practices-scaling-image-pro...

[+] puppymaster|14 years ago|reply

I'm actually using iron worker for some of my projects. They are awesome :)

But you will still need python/php/etc to process the file upload, as shown in the linked article itself.

[+] free|14 years ago|reply

I am currently working on processing images at scale(maybe small) and would be also be interested in knowing this.

[+] ch00ey|14 years ago|reply

Speaking of image processing, is anyone aware of any libraries or APIs that check image quality?

[+] free|14 years ago|reply

identify -verbose <filename> if you have imagemagick installed.

[+] Tombar|14 years ago|reply

nginx has a module that can provide some simple operations via REST api :)

edit to add link: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpImageFilterModule