Posted by Steve on 02/15/06 19:17

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 06:43:33 -0800, Socrates wrote:

> I am interested in developing an online utility that will enable users
> to
> copy and past any image (or upload any image on the internet) to the
> online utility, which will then convert the image to text.
>
>
> The user may "convert image to text" and copy and paste the text
> displayed into any word document, or send the text displayed to the
> recipient's email address or can download the text file as a zipped
> text file that will be presented to the user as a small zipped text
> file icon.
>
>
> The user can also enter a passcode for the text file. This will
> scramble the text according to a calculation. The recipient of the text
>
> file will then need to go to the online utility, paste in the text, and
>
> press "convert to image" to see the original image that the sender had
> converted into text.
>
>
> If a password was set at the time of production then it will be
> required before the image can be restored from the text.
>
>
> The utility could be sold as a browser add-on or as a downloadable
> utility which will enable any image on the internet to be converted to
> text simply by right-clicking on it and selecting "convert to text"
> from the context menu.
>
>
> The image on our website is 500 x 375 pixels @ 145 kb. The same image
> converted to a string of characters (representing paletted colours
> between 0 -256) can be saved as a zipped text file of less than 2 kb
> with no loss in quality when the file is converted back to an
> image.
>
>
> Would anyone wish to promote this utility?
>
>
> John Aidiniantz
> AMW Security Ltd
> www.amw1.com/image-converter

Not me.

Seeing as images are about as compressed as they can be, I rather doubt
that this will work. And converting a 32bit image into a 256 colour one
will certainly cause a degradation in quality.

Also, all images are converted into ascii when mailed anyway, so it's
nothing really new, is it?

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