Posted by cwdjrxyz on 10/04/06 02:12

alanryder@aol.com wrote:
> There is a web based program that turns images into a text version of
> the image. Each letter is a different color that corresponds with the
> original image color. I can get the text off the page, but it doesn't
> retain the color info. They only way I can use it is to do a screen
> dump. I want to do a really large image though, and to piece together
> all those dumps would be too hard.
>
> Is there any way to do a dump of just not just what's on the screen,
> but the buffer too, to get all the text with color info off the page?
> Would InDesign or Quark, or Illustrator do it, if text with color info
> is pasted into them? What about an HTML authoring program? Would that
> convert it to an image, and keep the color pasted?

There is some funny business going on if you try to save the image to a
file. You get a pic2.html.cgi.html file that gives the image if you
double click it. However you also get an uninvited guest directory that
contains goodies such as ads.html, show_ads.js, and a logo. If you view
the image file, it is a bit washed out. If you remove the funny
directory, it also removes the image file. I deleted all of this mess
and ran virus and adware scans to make certain the application had not
given me some other uninvited files. I was able to capture the image
fairly well from the screen using Gadwin PrintScreen. I am not going to
return to this site and try to find out exactly what it is doing. I
don't trust it after finding that uninvited directory.

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