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Install caire with Homebrew

Content aware image resize tool. Version 1.5.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

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macOS

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brew install caire

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overview

Package summary

Content aware image resize tool

Commands and aliases

  • caire

history

Project history and usage

Caire is a Go content-aware image resizing tool and library based on seam carving, with command-line, batch, mask, face-detection, and preview features.

Project history

The public repository was created in January 2018. The README defines Caire as a content-aware image resize library based on the Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing paper and documents the algorithmic flow: energy-map generation, dynamic-programming seam selection, and repeated seam removal.

Caire grew beyond a minimal seam-carving demo into a CLI-oriented package with shrinking and enlarging, horizontal and vertical resizing, face detection through the author's Pigo library, stdin/stdout support, recursive concurrent directory processing, protective and removal masks, multiple image formats, and a GUI preview mode.

Adoption history

Caire achieved broad visibility for a single-purpose media CLI: the GitHub project has far more stars than most Homebrew image utilities in this batch, and the README documents installation by go install and Homebrew. The project also advertises Snap and OpenFaaS integrations.

How it is used

Users resize images with caire -in input.jpg -out output.jpg, optionally setting width, height, percentage, square output, masks, blur and Sobel thresholds, debug seam visualization, face protection, or directory input. It can also work in Unix pipelines by reading from stdin and writing to stdout.

Why package nerds care

Caire is interesting because it packages a visually demonstrable computer-vision algorithm as a simple Go binary. For package managers it is the kind of niche CLI that proves image-processing research can become a one-command install.

Timeline

  • 2018: Public Caire repository created.
  • 2021: 1.4.0 release published.
  • 2023: 1.4.6 release published.
  • 2025: 1.5.0 release published.

Related projects

  • The README names the original seam-carving paper as the algorithmic basis.
  • Pigo, another project by the same author, is used for face detection to avoid face deformation.
  • The README links Caire integrations for OpenFaaS and Snap.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:image

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 8 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
cairecliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version1.5.0
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv1.5.0

https://github.com/esimov/caire

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:caire
Version1.5.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/caire
Homepagehttps://github.com/esimov/caire
Repositoryhttps://github.com/esimov/caire
Upstream docshttps://github.com/esimov/caire#readme
LicenseMIT
Source archivehttps://github.com/esimov/caire/archive/refs/tags/v1.5.0.tar.gz
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namecaire
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • bablShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, image-processing, media.
  • camelliaShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, image-processing, media.
  • epsilonShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, image-processing, media.
  • exact-imageShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, image-processing, media.
  • exiftranShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, image-processing, media.
  • faceprintsShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, image-processing, media.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment