Well, another year, another idea for my domain pictero.com. I was about to get rid of that domain for good. But here we are. This time I spend a little more time in a “product” - or whatever you want to call it and I came up with this idea:
A (mostly) browser based toolbox for a couple of common, simple image editing tasks:
- resizing, cropping and color adjustments
- pattern generation with a couple of different algorithms
- adding annotations like text or shapes
- showing common social media formats
- OCR extraction with tesseract, in the browser
- simple animations like Ken Burns
- ASCII-converter
- steganography
- and of course EXIF data viewer, reverse image search, etc.
So there’s a lot to explore here. Some functions require a backend, like I built in an “AI image identifier”. Also the user has (very limited) access to some free external image databases, like picsum.photos or unsplash.com . As CORS would block requests like that, I implemented a server side proxy for that.
Summary
Browser-based toolbox for common image-editing tasks (resize, crop, OCR, annotations, pattern generation, simple animations) with server-side AI features and proxy access to image sources.
Main Topics: Image Editing Online Tools Artificial Intelligence
Difficulty: advanced
Reading Time: approx. 10 minutes