From 9970486a2aa6dce24ceb6ba300f7dd61599946f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vinta Chen Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:14:13 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] feat: add rembg to Image Processing > General MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Maintainer-requested during the Media audit, replacing dropped pymatting with the tool whose traffic pymatting was carrying: rembg is the obvious choice for background removal — 4.1M downloads/month direct (pepy), 24.3K stars, pushed 2026-08, active release train. Takes the open third obvious-choice slot in General (no displacement needed), ordering after pillow and scikit-image. Co-Authored-By: Claude --- README.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f1212e44..089a8be6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -928,6 +928,7 @@ _Libraries for manipulating images._ - General - [pillow](https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow) - Pillow is the friendly [PIL](https://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/) fork. - [scikit-image](https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image) - A Python library for (scientific) image processing. + - [rembg](https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg) - A tool to remove image backgrounds. - [wand](https://github.com/emcconville/wand) - Python bindings for [MagickWand](https://www.imagemagick.org/script/magick-wand.php), C API for ImageMagick. - [pyvips](https://github.com/libvips/pyvips) - A fast image processing library with low memory needs. - Image Serving