Image scaling is the resizing of a digital image. In video technology, the magnification of digital material is known as upscaling or resolution enhancement.
It brings the power of AI upscaling to your fingertips, allowing you to turn low-resolution images into high-quality outputs and enabling you to enhance your images with ease.
There is a wide range of image upscaling tools for Linux. We’ve surveyed the scene and cherry-picked some useful open source tools.
Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here.
Let’s look at the software in more detail.
| Image Upscaler Tools | |
|---|---|
| Final2x | Enhance your images with super-resolution |
| Upscayl | Uses sophisticated AI models to enhance images |
| Upscaler | Upscale and enhance images |
| Real-ESRGAN GUI | AI image enlargement tool |
| chaiNNer | Node-based image processing GUI |
| Anime4KCPP | High-performance upscaling for anime images and videos |
| Aeternum | Simple and minimal image upscaler |
| waifu2x ncnn | Image upscaler / denoiser built on the ncnn inference framework |
| Open Photo AI | AI-powered photo restoration, enhancement and upscaling |
| upscaler-hollowaykeanho | Image and video upscaling |
| jdPixelUpscaler | Upscale images per pixel |
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