GD Graphics Library, famously used in PHP for image loading/manipulation & thumbnail generation. [custom permissive license, requires mention in user docs] website

GD alternatives and similar libraries

Based on the "Image Processing" category

• VTK

  8.1 9.8 L1 GD VS VTK

  Open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. [BSD]

• OpenEXR

  8.0 9.3 L1 GD VS OpenEXR

  Cross-platform library for high dynamic range imaging. [Modified BSDF]

• ITK

  7.5 9.7 L2 GD VS ITK

  An open-source, cross-platform system for image analysis. [Apache2 from ITK 4.0]

• OpenImageIO

  6.8 9.1 L1 GD VS OpenImageIO

  Powerful image and texture wrangling library with support for a wide number of common lossy and RAW formats. [Modified BSD]

• CImg

  6.5 9.3 GD VS CImg

  A small, open source, C++ toolkit for image processing. [Own LGPL or GPL]

• Video++

  5.7 0.9 L2 GD VS Video++

  A C++14 high performance video and image processing library. [MIT]

• OpenMVG (open Multiple View Geometry)

  5.5 7.7 GD VS OpenMVG (open Multiple View Geometry)

  Promoting 3d reconstruction from images through multiple-view geometry algorithms and ready to use pipelines.

• VIGRA

  5.2 0.0 L1 GD VS VIGRA

  A generic C++ computer vision library for image analysis. [MIT X11]

• OpenCV

  5.0 9.7 L1 GD VS OpenCV

  Open source computer vision. [BSD]

• libvips

  4.4 5.0 L3 GD VS libvips

  A fast image processing library with low memory needs. [LGPL] website

• hiptext

  4.2 0.0 L3 GD VS hiptext

  Turn images into text better than caca/aalib

• SVG++

  4.1 3.1 L3 GD VS SVG++

  The most advanced SVG reading library for C++

• GDCM

  4.1 9.2 L1 GD VS GDCM

  Grassroots DICOM library.

• tesseract-ocr

  4.0 9.6 L1 GD VS tesseract-ocr

  An OCR engine. [Apache2]

• Magick++

  3.8 3.2 GD VS Magick++

  ImageMagick program interfaces for C++. [Apache2]

• CxImage

  3.1 0.0 L1 GD VS CxImage

  An image processing and conversion library to load, save, display, transform BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, MNG, ICO, PCX, TGA, WMF, WBMP, JBG, J2K images. [zlib]

• Boost.GIL

  2.7 9.2 L3 GD VS Boost.GIL

  Generic Image Library.

• FreeImage

  2.1 0.0 L2 GD VS FreeImage

  An open source library that supports popular graphics image formats and others as needed by today's multimedia applications. [GPL2 or GPL3]

• DCMTK

  - - GD VS DCMTK

  DICOM Toolkit.

* Code Quality Rankings and insights are calculated and provided by Lumnify.
They vary from L1 to L5 with "L5" being the highest. Visit our partner's website for more details.

Do you think we are missing an alternative of GD or a related project?

Monitor and correlate metrics, traces, and logs in one platform. Free 14-day trial. More from our partner

Popular Comparisons

• GD
  vs
  libvips
• GD
  vs
  OpenCV
• GD
  vs
  FreeImage
• GD
  vs
  tesseract-ocr
• GD
  vs
  Magick++

SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews More from our team