encoding... how is this website doing this?

[TheCandyman]

i like how the did this, but i can't figure out how. In IE the "view source" is not an option, but in Firefox you can see it. In addition to that they use some sort of encoder on the html. If i turn off the java/javascipt but it's still encoded. What type of encoder are they using???

http://www.energyarizonafm.com/images/photos/Suede_Web_Finals/Web_Pics/Suede_1.jpg

 

[cLFlaVA]

that is am image. there is no html. you are viewing the encoding of an image as it appears in a text editor.

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[TheCandyman]

Is there an easy way to change an image to text?

 

[cLFlaVA]

? i can't imagine why you'd want to.

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[TheCandyman]

More of just to see it working so my question is answered even if it's a bad thing on bandwidth.

 

[ca8msm]

You could hide the image in CSS and replace it with text if that's what you mean.


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[Vragabond]

Is there an easy way to change an image to text?

Like ASCII art for example?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art

 

[TheCandyman]

ca8msm, what do you mean? Any examples?

 

[sedj]

I guess you could download the image, then apply an OCR algorithm to extract any text on the image - which could be interesting or useful.

Then, you could transform the image to base64 - which would be a representation of the image in ASCII - very tasty.

Or even better, transform the image into a in-memory bitmap, and extract the RGB values for each pixel (be careful here, because it could be an 1, 8 or 24 bit image, and also may have an alpha channel). Then you could write out (perhaps in a friendly XML format), then RGB[A] values for each pixel.

Then you could use XMLRPC or SOAP to fire the xml image over a network to a remote client, and then they could reinterpret the image back into its original image format.

Yay !!!

Of course, this would all require a fairly in-depth knowledge of a decent lanaguage like Java, or C/C++, and would not really be achievable in HTML alone.
Though ... maybe IE supports something similar to :

var image2text = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.Image2TextObject");

That syntax may require some tweaking though ...

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[ca8msm]

ca8msm, what do you mean? Any examples?

I meant simply changing the display of the image so that it wasn't shown and writing some text in place of it. I don't know if that's what you are trying to do or not though...


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[TheCandyman]

Sweet, thanks for all the input. As a computer guy i need to make sense of things, and yes it's kind of annoying.

THANKS!!

 

[chrissie1]

I think sedj has a point, for once but he forgot .net. I'm sure it wasn't intentional. ;-)

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I just like this --> [Wiggle] [Wiggle]

 

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[BobbaFet]

Just out of curiosity, why did you need to extract the text
from the image? Wouldn't be simpler to use title="" or alt="" to store the same text in and just extract that?

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[BobbaFet]

BTW: If you need to make such an image, I suggest you go look at a tutorial for Paintshop Pro or Photoshop Pro.

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