Speed up previews on Nextcloud with Imaginary running on Raspberry Pi

Here’s how you can set up the Imaginary in order to speed up the image preview on your Nextcloud instance, and select WebP format for the output file, to reduce preview size and improve quality. Imaginary support is available starting from Nextcloud 24.

I’m using Raspberry Pi 3B+ for this demonstration as it has low processing power capabilities and this integration can show the benefits.

You can also host it outside the Raspberry if you want to speed up things using more capable…