PHP sites have been doing this with TimThumb for quite a while. https://code.google.com/p/timthumb/ https://code.google.com/p/timthumb/ I wrote https://bitbuck

PHP sites have been doing this with TimThumb for quite a while. https://code.google.com/p/timthumb/ https://code.google.com/p/timthumb/ I wrote https://bitbucket.org/btubbs/thumpy https://bitbucket.org/btubbs/thumpy at work and we've been using it in production for a couple years. It's very similar to Pilbox.