About LivreImage
LivreImage is a set of free tools for everyday image work — compress, convert, resize, crop, remove backgrounds, generate and read QR codes. They all run inside your browser: the file you choose is not sent to any server. Your own device does the processing.
- Project
- LivreImage — image tools that run in the browser
- Where
- Brazil
- Online since
- June 2026
- Contact
- contact form
- Funding
- advertising; no paid plan and no accounts
Why the site exists
The job is usually small: a photo is over a form's size limit, an iPhone saved it in a format the office system will not open, a listing requires a white background. The usual answer is an online converter that receives the image on a server, asks for an account, enforces a daily limit or returns the result with a watermark.
None of that is needed for this kind of job. Current browsers can decode, redraw and save images by themselves. LivreImage simply organizes that ability into plain pages that open already configured for each case.
What the site does and does not do
- It does: compression, free or down to a target size in KB; conversion between JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, GIF, BMP, SVG, ICO and PDF; resizing in pixels or percent; free, ratio-locked or circular cropping; background removal with a computer-vision model that runs on the device; QR code generation and reading.
- It does not: store files, create accounts, add watermarks, upscale images with AI, edit video or convert PDF to images. We would rather state the limit than promise what the tool cannot deliver.
How it works without a server
The tools use the browser's canvas element to redraw the image and ask the browser itself to save it in another format, size or quality. Background removal uses the U²-Netp model, run locally through WebAssembly. Because the image is redrawn, EXIF metadata — location, date, camera model — does not travel with the generated file.
There is an honest limit: very large files depend on the memory available on the device. On an older phone a 50-megapixel photo may not fit. That is not a quota set by the site; it is the ceiling of the hardware.
Do not take our word for it
The claim that nothing is uploaded can be checked in thirty seconds: press F12, open the Network tab and use any tool. You will see the site load code and fonts, and no request carrying your image. The full walkthrough, including what is normal to see and what an upload would look like, is in the guide How to tell whether a site uploads your photo.
How the site is funded
LivreImage is free and has no paid plan. The cost of running it is covered by advertising, shown outside the working area of the tools. Ads and visit statistics only use cookies with your permission, and none of them has access to the images you process. Details are in the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy.
Guides and editorial standards
Besides the tools, we publish guides about formats, file size, printing, ID photos and privacy. Numbers, limits and official requirements are checked against the primary source, and the list of sources sits at the end of each guide with the date we read them. We use artificial-intelligence tools to support research and drafting; what we cannot confirm in the sources is left out. Mistakes reported by readers are corrected and the guide's update date changes with them.
Timeline
- Launch, in Portuguese and English, with compression, conversion, resizing, background removal and QR codes.
- Forty new pages in Portuguese: KB targets, social-media and marketplace sizes, ID photos and format conversions. Pinch-to-zoom enabled on every page for accessibility.
- New design, interactive crop with handles, a larger English section and the first guides.
Later changes are recorded in What's new.
Technology and credits
The site is static HTML and framework-free JavaScript. The heavy lifting is done by open-source projects, loaded only when the matching tool is used:
- heic2any (MIT license) — reading iPhone HEIC photos;
- jsPDF (MIT) — PDF output; JSZip (MIT or GPLv3) — the .zip with the batch;
- ONNX Runtime Web (MIT) and the U²-Net model (Apache 2.0) — background removal;
- jsQR (Apache 2.0) and qrcode-generator (MIT) — reading and generating QR codes;
- Lucide (ISC) — icons; Plus Jakarta Sans (SIL Open Font License) — typeface.
Get in touch
Suggestions, bug reports and content corrections are welcome through the contact page.