Credits & Licenses

TrimImage runs entirely in your browser — no image is ever uploaded. The tools below are built with open-source software, and this page credits every third-party component, its authors and its license.

What each tool uses

✂️ Trim image

No third-party code. Plain HTML canvas pixel analysis written for this app.

⛶ Crop

No third-party code. Canvas selection, rotation and flipping written for this app.

🧽 Erase color

No third-party code. Color-distance matching, flood fill and brush compositing written for this app.

🪄 Remove background

Uses the AI segmentation stack credited below — the model runs locally on your device.

Open-source components

Used by the Remove background tool.

Component	Author	Purpose	License
@imgly/background-removal v1.7.0	IMG.LY GmbH	Runs the segmentation model in the browser	AGPL-3.0
IS-Net (DIS) segmentation model	Xuebin Qin, Hang Dai, Xiaobin Hu, Deng-Ping Fan, Ling Shao, Luc Van Gool	Neural network that separates subject from background	MIT (upstream code Apache-2.0)
ONNX Runtime Web v1.21.0	Microsoft	Executes the model on WebGPU / WebAssembly	MIT
ndarray	Mikola Lysenko	Tensor views over pixel buffers	MIT
lodash-es	OpenJS Foundation & contributors	Utility helpers	MIT
zod	Colin McDonnell	Configuration validation	MIT

License texts: AGPL-3.0 · MIT · Apache-2.0

Model & asset delivery

The background-removal library is loaded from jsDelivr, and the neural-network weights plus the WebAssembly runtime are downloaded from IMG.LY's asset CDN (staticimgly.com) the first time you use that tool. They are then cached by your browser. Your photo is never part of that traffic — only the model travels, and it travels to you.

Research citation

The segmentation model comes from this paper. If you use it in academic work, please cite:

@InProceedings{qin2022,
      author={Xuebin Qin and Hang Dai and Xiaobin Hu and Deng-Ping Fan and Ling Shao and Luc Van Gool},
      title={Highly Accurate Dichotomous Image Segmentation},
      booktitle={ECCV},
      year={2022}
}

Source code

The Remove background tool builds on @imgly/background-removal, which is licensed under the AGPL-3.0. That license asks anyone running the software over a network to offer its users the complete corresponding source. TrimImage's source is available here:

Get the source code on GitHub

Setup needed: point the link above at your repository — edit href on #sourceLink in credits.html. This notice removes itself once you do.

IMG.LY also offers commercial licensing for projects that cannot publish their source — [email protected]. This page is attribution, not legal advice.

Privacy

Every tool on this site processes images locally with the HTML canvas API and, for background removal, a model running on your own device. No image data is uploaded, stored or tracked.