summyd / rembg

Rembg is a tool to remove images background.

Rembg

Rembg is a tool to remove images background. That is it.

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Installation

CPU support:

pip install rembg

GPU support:

pip install rembg[gpu]

Usage as a cli

Remove the background from a remote image

curl -s http://input.png | rembg i > output.png

Remove the background from a local file

rembg i path/to/input.png path/to/output.png

Remove the background from all images in a folder

rembg p path/to/input path/to/output

Usage as a server

Start the server

rembg s

Open your browser to

http://localhost:5000?url=http://image.png

Also you can send the file as a FormData (multipart/form-data):

<form action="http://localhost:5000" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
   <input type="file" name="file"/>
   <input type="submit" value="upload"/>
</form>

Usage as a library

Input and output as bytes

from rembg import remove

input_path = 'input.png'
output_path = 'output.png'

with open(input_path, 'rb') as i:
    with open(output_path, 'wb') as o:
        input = i.read()
        output = remove(input)
        o.write(output)

Input and output as a PIL image

from rembg import remove
from PIL import Image

input_path = 'input.png'
output_path = 'output.png'

input = Image.open(input_path)
output = remove(input)
output.save(output_path)

Input and output as a numpy array

from rembg import remove
import cv2

input_path = 'input.png'
output_path = 'output.png'

input = cv2.imread(input_path)
output = remove(input)
cv2.imwrite(output_path, output)

Usage as a docker

First compile with:

docker build . -t rembg

Then run with:

docker run --rm -i rembg i in.png out.png

Advance usage

Sometimes it is possible to achieve better results by turning on alpha matting. Example:

curl -s http://input.png | rembg i -a -ae 15 > output.png

Original	Without alpha matting	With alpha matting (-a -ae 15)

In the cloud

Please contact me at [e-mail] if you need help to put it on the cloud.

References

• https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.09007.pdf
• https://github.com/NathanUA/U-2-Net
• https://github.com/pymatting/pymatting

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License

Copyright (c) 2020-present Daniel Gatis

Licensed under MIT License