# Imager (CLI & Low-Level Implementation or Engine)

## About

Imager is a tool for automated image compression, and can competitively optimize very noisy, high resolution images into rather “tiny” files.

## [Image Compression Benchmarks](https://github.com/colbyn/imager-bench-2019-11-2)

```text
source        : ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 39.00M (4 images)
kraken.io     : ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 24M
jpegmini.com  : ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 16M
compression.ai: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.90M
imager        : ▇▇▇▇ 4.20M
```