Victor Guyard | Project - Image Optimization Tool

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Creating a lossless image optimization tool.

Published on Nov 12, 2022. Last updated on Nov 12, 2022.

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What am I trying to do?

Create a great lossless image optimization tool that is inspired by ImageOptim.

With what?

Rust + SolidJs. I’ve tried doing this over the past summer, but “gOt BuSy”.

I’ll use Tauri to make a desktop app where, just like in ImageOptim, you can drag n’ drop any image and have it losslessly compressed.

Right now, I don’t want to enable lossy compression for 2 reasons:

I do not care about it and want to retain quality.
I do not want to have to make a slider for quality loss/retention because it will be a hassle.

Another cool thing could be to have this serve as a PDF optimizer (yeah I didn’t think this was a thing until September this year) using ocrmypdf.

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