Silviu Anca

I grew up in Moara Vlăsiei, a village just outside Bucharest, and studied mathematics and computer science at the Colegiul Național „I.L. Caragiale” in Bucharest. I got a 10 — the top mark — in mathematics at the Romanian baccalaureate, and went on to study Automatic Control and Computers at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.

It started with tutoring: in high school I helped a few younger students with maths and physics for free, and over the years more than 100 students have worked with me. To turn that into something lasting I founded AXS LEARNING SRL, which today builds education platforms — among them AXS Liceu, used by more than 6,500 students and parents to prepare for the national high-school admission, and Era Lumis, which marks practice exams against the official grading scheme.

Why AXS IMG exists

AXS Tools — AXS IMG and its sister sites — are built on three rules: do the job in your browser wherever that's possible, so files stay on your device; stay free for everyday use; and say plainly when a file does have to be processed on a server, and what happens to it there.

How we build and test the tools

Every tool is tested end to end in a real browser with real images, and the output is measured: format, dimensions, file size, transparency and metadata — then looked at side by side with the original.

The test set is what people actually upload: a 4000 × 3000 phone photo stored sideways with GPS-style metadata, a transparent PNG logo that isn't square, WebP, an iPhone HEIC photo, a portrait for background removal and an image with text for OCR.

That testing is how we found, and fixed, problems such as edited JPGs being saved as PNGs five to ten times larger. The numbers on the tool pages come from those tests.

Contact

Found something that doesn't work, or a result that looks wrong? Write to office@axslearning.ro. More about me at silviuanca.com.