From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 11:34:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: util: Remove the blur to improve compression ratio
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util: Remove the blur to improve compression ratio

Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
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diff --git a/src/backend/util.py b/src/backend/util.py
index 021b139b..17b3d3a0 100644
--- a/src/backend/util.py
+++ b/src/backend/util.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import PIL.ExifTags
 import PIL.Image
-import PIL.ImageFilter
 import PIL.ImageOps
 import datetime
 import io
@@ -244,12 +243,6 @@ def generate_thumbnail(image, size, square=False, format=None, quality=None, **a
 	else:
 		image.thumbnail((size, size), PIL.Image.LANCZOS)
 
-	# Apply a gaussian blur to make compression easier
-	try:
-		image = image.filter(PIL.ImageFilter.GaussianBlur(radius=0.05))
-	except ValueError:
-		pass
-
 	# Arguments to optimise the compression
 	args.update({
 		"subsampling" : "4:2:2",