Archives: July 2025

Introducing the PixLab Mind Map App — Visual Thinking, Unleashed

We’re thrilled to announce the official release of the PixLab Mind Map App, a powerful, intuitive, and completely free visual workspace designed to help you organize ideas, boost creativity, and accelerate productivity. Whether you're brainstorming solo or collaborating with your team, PixLab Mind Map makes visual thinking effortless and accessible.

MindMap App

Why PixLab Mind Map?

The modern workflow is visual. That’s why we created a tool that matches the speed of thought — one that’s elegant, frictionless, and incredibly fast. PixLab Mind Map was built for students, creators, entrepreneurs, and professionals who need a flexible and distraction-free canvas to bring their ideas to life.

Key Features

  • Drag-and-Drop Simplicity
    Instantly create, connect, and customize nodes on a clean, responsive canvas.
  • Real-Time Collaboration
    Work together live with your team — share feedback and ideas instantly.
  • Smart Templates
    Choose from a growing library of ready-to-use templates for projects, education, planning, and more.
  • Dark Mode Ready
    Built to reduce eye strain for late-night creativity sessions.
  • Secure by Design
    We encrypt your sessions, auto-delete temp data, and never sell your information. All data is saved on your local storage, no cloud sync is performed.

Who Is It For?

  • Students – Organize lecture notes and exam plans visually
  • Educators – Map out curriculum and lesson flows
  • Teams – Plan sprints, roadmap features, and capture standups
  • Writers & Creators – Develop plot outlines or content strategies
  • Everyone – Capture daily thoughts and to-dos visually

💡 Built on PixLab’s Vision for Simpler Tools

PixLab is committed to delivering beautifully simple, privacy-first AI tools for modern teams. The Mind Map App is the latest addition to our growing ecosystem, and we’re just getting started.

🎉 Try It Free — Right Now

There’s no signup wall. No hidden costs. No installs.

👉 Launch the app: https://mindmap.pixlab.io
👉 Learn more: https://pixlab.io/mindmap-maker

Thank you to our early users for your feedback, support, and excitement. We can't wait to see what you'll build with PixLab Mind Map.

Explore the New PixLab Vision Platform VLM API Endpoints

PixLab’s Vision VLM Platform introduces a groundbreaking set of Vision Language Model (VLM) endpoints that combine natural language processing and computer vision in a simple, developer-friendly API suite.

PixLab Vision Platform

From querying images and parsing complex documents to generating PDFs and extracting ID data, the PixLab VLM API makes it easy to integrate intelligent image and document analysis into your own apps.

Vision Language Model Endpoints

These endpoints allow your application to understand images and video frames with natural language intelligence.

  • /query – Ask natural language questions about images and receive contextual answers
  • /describe – Get a natural language description of an image
  • /tagimg – Retrieve tags describing the image content
  • /detect – Detect and localize objects in the image
  • /vocr – OCR via vision models for printed text
  • /nsfw – Detect explicit content in media

Unstructured Document Parsing

Parse unstructured documents like invoices, receipts, and contracts using VLM-powered tools.

  • /llm-parse – Extract data from complex document layouts using a user-defined schema

Embedding APIs

Turn your content into machine-understandable vectors for search, indexing, and matching.

  • /txt-embed – Generate semantic embeddings from raw text
  • /img-embed – Generate vector embeddings from images

These endpoints are perfect for building your own AI-powered similarity search or recommendation systems.

Image Processing & Background Removal

PixLab also provides classic computer vision capabilities enhanced by AI.

  • /bg-remove – Remove background or unwanted objects from images
  • /docscan – Scan and extract JSON data from over 11,000 supported ID document types from 200+ countries
  • /nsfw – Pixelate or block NSFW content automatically

PDF Generation & Conversion

Create and manipulate PDF documents programmatically using these SDK-free endpoints:

  • /pdfgen – Generate media-rich PDFs from HTML or Markdown
  • /pdftoimg – Convert PDF files into image previews

LLM Tool Calling Infrastructure

PixLab provides built-in tools for enhancing your LLM pipeline:

  • /llm-tool – Get a list of tools callable from your LLM
  • /tool-call – Execute a tool call based on LLM output

These endpoints enable your LLM agent to execute functions dynamically and return results within the same context.

System Tools & Metadata

Helpful utility endpoints for checking server health and supported formats:

  • /status – View current system status
  • /about – Get PixLab version & license info
  • /extension – Retrieve supported file extensions

Explore the Full API Suite

PixLab offers over 150 RESTful endpoints for vision, media, and document automation tasks. Visit the following links to dive deeper:

Final Thoughts

Whether you're working on an AI productivity suite, eKYC onboarding, or document automation pipeline, PixLab’s VLM API delivers powerful, production-ready tools in minutes. All endpoints are accessible via secure HTTP requests and require no proprietary SDKs.

Get started by signing up for an API key at PixLab Console and explore what's possible with Vision Language Models.

Build smarter apps — faster.

New FACEIO REST API Endpoints for Face Verification & Age Estimation

We're excited to announce the release of two new REST API endpoints from FACEIO that extend the power of our facial recognition technology beyond browser-based widget instantiations.

FACEIO Integration

You can now leverage FACEIO's advanced face matching and age detection models entirely via REST API, without requiring frontend JavaScript integration or widget rendering. These endpoints are ideal for server-side face verification and age validation workflows such as identity checks, restricted access control, and user segmentation.

Face Verification API – faceverify

The faceverify API endpoint allows you to programmatically compare two face images and determine if they belong to the same individual—no prior enrollment required.

✅ Key Features:

  • Compare faces in two images
  • No FACEIO Widget or user session needed
  • No enrollment required
  • Fully memory-based (RAM) processing with auto image deletion
  • Privacy-first: no storage, logs, or persistent caching

📥 How it works:

Send a POST request with two base64-encoded face images: - src: Base64 of the first face image - target: Base64 of the second face image

Each image must contain only one face. If your image contains multiple faces, extract the target face using the PixLab CROP API ↗.

Example Use Case:

  • Comparing a selfie against an uploaded ID or reference image in tandem with the PixLab Document Scanner API Endpoint ↗
  • Face matching for duplicate detection or system re-entry checks
{
  "src": "data:image/jpeg;base64,...",
  "target": "data:image/jpeg;base64,..."
}

The API returns a JSON object with the similarity score and a match boolean.

Age & Gender Detection API – agecheck

The agecheck endpoint allows you to estimate the age and gender of a person from a single uploaded image that is ideal for access control, compliance, and content gating.

✅ Key Features:

  • Estimate age and gender from a single face image
  • No prior enrollment or widget interaction required
  • Memory-only (RAM) processing
  • No persistent storage or logging

📥 How it works:

Send a POST request with the following parameter: - src: A base64-encoded image containing a single visible face

{
  "src": "data:image/jpeg;base64,..."
}

The API responds with estimated age, gender, and confidence scores.

Example Use Case:

  • Verifying user age for gated content or age-based access
  • Estimating demographic data during user registration
  • Segmenting users based on estimated age or gender

🔒 Privacy & Security First

Both endpoints operate in-memory only and follow strict privacy measures. Images are processed and then immediately purged, no logs, no storage, and no data retention. This aligns fully with our Security Best Practices.

📚 Ready to Build?

You can use the new FACEIO REST APIs with any backend that supports HTTP POST requests and base64 data encoding.

For implementation guides, authentication headers, and full request/response examples, refer to the official documentation:

Start building face-powered features into your backend today.

FACEIO – Secure, Passwordless Authentication for Websites and Web Apps FACEIO offers secure, cross-browser, passwordless authentication via facial recognition. Streamline access control and enhance user experience with our face recognition login solution.