Sorl-thumbnail provides a convenient way to create and manage image thumbnails in a django project. it offers integration into several parts of django like the admin system by showing thumbnails for imagefields or through a imagefield that also takes care of deleting thumbnail files when the referencing object is removed.

other features include:
* django storage support
* pluggable engine support (pil, pgmagick, imagemagick or graphicsmagick)
* pluggable key value store support (django cache, redis)
* pluggable backend support (i.e. different thumbnail filename schema)
* dummy generation (placeholders)
* flexible, simple syntax, generates no html
* css style cropping options
* margin calculation for vertical positioning
this package contains the documentation.