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License and Credits

Who owns the images you work on, and which open-source software Image York is built with.

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Your images

You keep all rights to the images you open in Image York and to the results you download. The tools process files in your browser, so your images are not transferred to us, and we claim no ownership of them and no licence to use them.

You are responsible for having the right to edit and share the images you process. See the Terms of Use for details.

Open-source software used by the tools

SoftwareUsed forLicence
browser-image-compressionCompression and format conversionMIT
picaHigh-quality resizing in the bulk resizer and cropperMIT
JSZipCreating ZIP downloadsMIT or GPL-3.0 (dual licence)
exifrReading EXIF and GPS metadataMIT
Color ThiefPalette extractionMIT
Cropper.js and react-cropperThe crop boxMIT
Tesseract.jsText recognition (OCR)Apache-2.0
IMG.LY background removalSubject detection in the AI Background Remover, Blur Background and the Detect subject option of the background toolsAGPL-3.0
ONNX Runtime WebRunning the segmentation modelMIT
Next.js and ReactThe website frameworkMIT
LucideIconsISC

Each project is the work of its own authors and is used under the licence shown.

Site content

The written content and design of Image York belong to its operator. You are welcome to link to any page and to quote short passages with a link back.