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Open-source licenses & credits
Crop Desk is built with open-source software. We only use components whose licenses allow free commercial use (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, SIL OFL). Thank you to every author listed below. All processing runs in your browser; AI models are downloaded to your device only when you choose an AI feature, and can be turned off with the “AI on/off” switch.
Libraries (JavaScript / WebAssembly)
| Component | License | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| pdf.js (Mozilla) | Apache-2.0 | PDF rendering & PDF→image |
| pdf-lib | MIT | Merge, split, rotate, create PDFs |
| qpdf (WebAssembly build) | Apache-2.0 | PDF protect / unlock |
| Tesseract.js + tesseract.js-core | Apache-2.0 | OCR (text from images / PDFs) |
| JSZip | MIT (dual MIT/GPLv3 – used under MIT) | ZIP downloads |
| html2canvas | MIT | Image export of designed pages |
| QRCode.js | MIT | QR codes |
| heic2any | MIT (wrapper); bundles libheif – LGPL-3.0, loaded as an unmodified separate file | iPhone HEIC → JPG – fallback only. Crop Desk first uses your browser's built-in HEIC decoding; heic2any is loaded (unmodified, from /js/vendor/heic2any.min.js) only if the browser cannot decode HEIC. LGPL notice: libheif is © Dirk Farin / struktur AG and is licensed under LGPL-3.0; you may replace that file with your own build. Source: github.com/strukturag/libheif · github.com/alexcorvi/heic2any |
| Transformers.js (Hugging Face) | Apache-2.0 | Runs optional on-device AI models |
| ONNX Runtime Web (Microsoft) | MIT | AI model runtime (WebAssembly) |
| MediaPipe Tasks Vision (Google) | Apache-2.0 | On-device face detection |
| React / Vite build of the bulk cropper | MIT | /tool/ interface |
| Lucide icons | ISC License | Tool and category icons (/img/icons.svg) |
Optional AI models (downloaded to your device only when you use an AI feature)
| Component | License | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| MODNet (Xenova/modnet ONNX port) | Apache-2.0 | Background cutout |
| Swin2SR lightweight ×2 (ONNX port of caidas/swin2SR-lightweight-x2-64) | Apache-2.0 | Photo upscale / enhance |
| all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (sentence-transformers) | Apache-2.0 | Smart tool search & Croppi help |
| BlazeFace short-range (MediaPipe) | Apache-2.0 | Face auto-centre / smart crop |
| Tesseract trained data – English, Hindi (tessdata) | Apache-2.0 | OCR languages |
Fonts
| Component | License | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| System fonts of your device | – | Site typography (Latin) |
| Noto Sans Devanagari (Google, self-hosted) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 | Hindi text; downloaded only when a page shows Hindi |
Original Crop Desk assets
| Component | License | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Croppi mascot, logo, illustrations, guides and tool text | © Crop Desk – original work | Not derived from any third-party character or brand |
License texts
Apache-2.0: apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 · MIT: opensource.org/license/mit · ISC: opensource.org/license/isc · SIL OFL 1.1: openfontlicense.org · LGPL-3.0 (libheif inside heic2any): gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0. Copyright notices remain in each bundled file.
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