Here you'll find several tips, tweaks and tutorials on matters I find interesting (and possibly you will too) regarding the web and other techy stuff. Look around and you'll surely find something that you find useful.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Image to text converter

Ever wondered how those bits of text were written to look like an image?
For examle:


Well its very easy using TIM Text to image Converter!
This neat little bit of code developed by the coders at donationcoders.com works great at this purpose!
You can check out the original page of this software here.

The download link in the previous link requires you to download two separate files and then extract the contents of one into the other for it to work.
I've simplified that for you by already doing the extraction part and hosting the ready product.
You can download it from here. UnRar and run Tim.exe to use!


The program converts an image (jpg or bmp) to a text, which looks like the image in grayscale. You can choose any monospaced font and any font size you want to format the text with, and also any set of allowed characters. The result can be saved as text and then you can format it correctly in a text editor, or you can save the image of the text already correctly formatted.


You could also save your converted results in an image format (jpeg, gif) just as I have done in the above image.

If you are unsatisfied with the result of your converted image;
Try to change color mapping so that the line is more steep, it improves contrast. Look at the histograms to decide where the line should lie. You could also play with the color sliders.
What works best for me is, bloating up the source image to a higher resolution and then converting the enlarged image.


Another very impressive converter is an online one;  TEXT-IMAGE.com

You can choose between HTML, ASCII and Matrix output results for your image.

Again, if you are unsatisfied with your result, enlarging the image will help.


If you do happen to know of any other more efficient converter, I'd be pleased to know. Do leave details in the comments for this post. Thanks and keep coming! :)

3 comments:

Keith Mascarenhas said...

http://asciiconvert.com/

Heres another site.

Convert Font said...

Hi,

Image to text converter is a type of software that can be used to transcribe documents and images in any format to the text format. This software helps one to convert the image files into text files. Thanks a lot.

free online image converter said...

Online format converters will be extremely convenient utilities. They let you convert between formats without having to install any software on your local machine. It is the best free tools for changing image file formats.

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