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Re: Textify: Convert images to HTML text

#31

Post by jzting » Wed, May 25, 2011, 12:06 AM UTC

Love it.

Re: Textify: Convert images to HTML text

#32

Post by hartror » Wed, May 25, 2011, 1:36 AM UTC

geekzgalore wrote: post #14

highace wrote: post #10

"Convert images to HTML text. Drag and drop images on to the page to start murdering your browser! "

I agree. The tab hogs memory and kills the browser.

Works fine for me.

Ubuntu 11.04 - Chrome 11

Re: Textify: Convert images to HTML text

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Post by hartror » Wed, May 25, 2011, 1:38 AM UTC

hakim wrote: post #7

VMG wrote: post #4

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'server/util.php' (include_path='.:/hsphere/shared/apache/libexec/php4ext/php/') in /hsphere/local/home/hakim/hakim.se/experiments/html5/textify/index.php on line 3

You must've reloaded just as I was uploading a small update.

Best way to do updates is to deploy new versions to separate directories and just change a symlink. Bonus is you can quickly revert to the older version if you find an issue.

Re: Textify: Convert images to HTML text

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Post by wtracy » Wed, May 25, 2011, 3:54 AM UTC

antihero wrote: post #23

Using • you can recreate pointillism :)

I got some neat painterly effects with /\|

(Be prepared to crank it up to something like 50000 characters if you don't want half the image to be background color, though.)

Re: Textify: Convert images to HTML text

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Post by hakim » Wed, May 25, 2011, 7:55 AM UTC

highace wrote: post #10

"Convert images to HTML text. Drag and drop images on to the page to start murdering your browser! "

I added an option for rendering on a canvas element instead of adding elements to the DOM. It performs a lot better this way since there's no DOM reflow/layout to worry about.

Re: Textify: Convert images to HTML text

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Post by ssdsa » Wed, May 25, 2011, 7:57 AM UTC

aerotrain wrote: post #28

ssdsa wrote: post #8

I did something similar in 1997 (!): http://home.wtal.de/ss/html/pnmtohtml/baby_032.html What do you think?

Aha! this is amazing. Is there a web interface to upload and try ?

Sorry, but I didn't create any web interface for that back in 1997. :-) Instead, I wrote a C program to generate those HTML files. More information on that is here: http://home.wtal.de/ss/html/pnmtohtml/pnmtohtml.html - Sorry, in German. Maybe Google translate might be of some use: http://translate.google.de/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl...

Re: Textify: Convert images to HTML text

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Post by geekzgalore » Fri, May 27, 2011, 4:59 AM UTC

hartror wrote: post #32

geekzgalore wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. The tab hogs memory and kills the browser.

Works fine for me. Ubuntu 11.04 - Chrome 11

Windows XP - Firefox 5.0a2. Works today though.

Re: Textify: Convert images to HTML text

#38

Post by fcolaco » Sun, May 29, 2011, 12:11 PM UTC

We released an App for Android/iPhone/iPad/iWhatever a few weeks ago with the same concept, but using artwork elements to recreate the photo, instead of text. It's called Pixeroid :) http://pixeroid.com Update coming soon