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I use VIPS

https://jcupitt.github.io/libvips/API/current/using-cli.html

Much better performance and better image format support for my use.

It also has a gui

The GitHub wiki for VIPS has a page [1] very relevant to GP's question. It lists two dozen alternatives to VIPS (both command line tools and libraries) and compares how they performed on a load-crop-scale-apply convolution-save task. The source code for each implementation of the task is right there on the page.

[1] https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/wiki/Speed-and-memory-use

Thanks!

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