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We originally built this as part of a bigger app but since removing backgrounds of images can be a tiresome task in itself we thought why not release it as a standalone…",{"value":61,"source":62,"evidence":63},"Free; maker has not said how it will be paid for","commenter",[64,68,72],{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},"18705693","imron","> and it's FREE. So how do you pay for it, and what does it cost me (in non-monetary form)?",{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},"18705937","icebraining","I'm guessing they'll charge for the API and possibly support for higher-resolutions.",{"id":73,"by":66,"text":74},"18711523","That would have been one of my guesses also - but I don't want to guess, and that info doesn't appear to be available on their site.",{"value":76,"source":55,"evidence":77},"Background removal is a tiresome task in itself",[78],{"id":58,"by":10,"text":59},[80],{"value":81,"source":62,"evidence":82},"Deep learning (multiple U-Nets)",[83],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"18705877","Tuxa","Yup. 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