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You can do this yourself for free, using the U2NET model... Either client-side or server side.

Pretty trivial thing to implement.

For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by [...]

sending your photos to your iphone, tapping and holding on the object, and taping the share option that pops up over the foreground item, then choosing save image. then you can send that new image with the background removed back to your linux system.

How to send and receive image between linux and iphone is left as an exercise for the reader.

I don't think trivial means what you think it means

https://github.com/OPHoperHPO/image-background-remove-tool

Open source implementation of this

Several hundreds or possibly several thousands of lines of python code (I just checked main.py and one from a subfolder) doesn't sound trivial to me.

That said, I am not negative, only pointing out that at least for me (as a admittedly non-native speaker,) trivial is not a word I would use to describe it.

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