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Content aware image resize tool. Version 1.5.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27.
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Package summary
Content aware image resize tool
Project links
Commands and aliases
- caire
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Project history and usage
Caire is a Go content-aware image resizing tool and library based on seam carving, with command-line, batch, mask, face-detection, and preview features.
Project history
The public repository was created in January 2018. The README defines Caire as a content-aware image resize library based on the Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing paper and documents the algorithmic flow: energy-map generation, dynamic-programming seam selection, and repeated seam removal.
Caire grew beyond a minimal seam-carving demo into a CLI-oriented package with shrinking and enlarging, horizontal and vertical resizing, face detection through the author's Pigo library, stdin/stdout support, recursive concurrent directory processing, protective and removal masks, multiple image formats, and a GUI preview mode.
Adoption history
Caire achieved broad visibility for a single-purpose media CLI: the GitHub project has far more stars than most Homebrew image utilities in this batch, and the README documents installation by go install and Homebrew. The project also advertises Snap and OpenFaaS integrations.
How it is used
Users resize images with caire -in input.jpg -out output.jpg, optionally setting width, height, percentage, square output, masks, blur and Sobel thresholds, debug seam visualization, face protection, or directory input. It can also work in Unix pipelines by reading from stdin and writing to stdout.
Why package nerds care
Caire is interesting because it packages a visually demonstrable computer-vision algorithm as a simple Go binary. For package managers it is the kind of niche CLI that proves image-processing research can become a one-command install.
Timeline
- 2018: Public Caire repository created.
- 2021: 1.4.0 release published.
- 2023: 1.4.6 release published.
- 2025: 1.5.0 release published.
Related projects
- The README names the original seam-carving paper as the algorithmic basis.
- Pigo, another project by the same author, is used for face detection to avoid face deformation.
- The README links Caire integrations for OpenFaaS and Snap.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Risk classifier
blue risk · medium confidence · tool
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signals
- text:image
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
caire | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.5.0
manager updated2026-07-27
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:caire |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.5.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/esimov/caire |
| Repository | https://github.com/esimov/caire |
| Last updated | 2026-07-27T19:20:55+02:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
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