truss is an image transformation toolkit with a shared Rust core powering a command-line interface, HTTP server, and browser-based WebAssembly build.
It can convert, resize, crop, optimize, and manipulate images, and is suitable for local shell pipelines and image processing services.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, BMP, TIFF, and SVG images.
- Resize, crop, rotate, blur, sharpen, optimize, and watermark images.
- Command-line interface with stdin and stdout pipeline support.
- HTTP image transformation server with signed URLs and multiple storage backends.
- Browser-based image processing through WebAssembly.
Website: github.com/nao1215/truss
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Developer: CHIKAMATSU Naohiro
License: MIT License

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