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Re:Calipers: The Fastest Way to Measure Image Dimensions in ... by mkoryak on Friday October 02, 2015 @02:53PM (#10320491)
this is written entirely in javascript. If all you need is to get an image size, then installing imagemagick is overkill
Re:Calipers: The Fastest Way to Measure Image Dimensions in ... by guepe on Friday October 02, 2015 @03:22PM (#10320650)
I see. So this is a "fast javascript implementation to retrieve size of {image, pdf}" And since process is a small task with many calls, it would be costly to call an external process (imagemagik) using native code.