Textify: Convert images to HTML text

Nice.<p>One thing that's obviously missing is a way to link to the image you've just created. I have a nice looking photo sitting there, but seemingly the only way to share it is to view source, copy, paste into a new HTML file and upload it to a server somewhere.<p>Have it start each new session at a random URL that you can share, and this will get very popular very fast.

I did something similar in 1997 (!): <a href="http://home.wtal.de/ss/html/pnmtohtml/baby_032.html" rel="nofollow">http://home.wtal.de/ss/html/pnmtohtml/baby_032.html</a> What do you think?

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

Maybe it's me, but I can't get this to work (in either Chrome 12 or IE9).

Try deleting all characters from "Character set" and click APPLY SETTINGS :-)

I love the quality of the image when you set the character quantity to max, but I notice the speed of the rendering gets progressively slower with each pass.<p>And now I start pondering the scalability of the algorithm.

Using • you can recreate pointillism :)

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 :) <a href="http://pixeroid.com" rel="nofollow">http://pixeroid.com</a> Update coming soon

This is cool! If you could use characters with different font sizes it may look better. Also kinda slow. You wanna explain a bit what you do? Is it just image -&#62; choose a random point set -&#62; draw? Is this based on Canvas or CSS?

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I was expecting automatic ASCII art, like <a href="http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/gallery/" rel="nofollow">http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/gallery/</a>, but this is nice too.<p>The submission needs a lot of characters, though.

I somewhat expected JS-based OCR. But this is cool, too!

That is really great! Besides export options, what would it take to be able to modify the density over certain areas of the output image?

Not exactly the ascii art I expected. But still very cool anyway.<p>Also, it would be great, if someone implements figlet[1] using html5.<p>[1] www.figlet.org

This is cool! There's a typo in the controls, it says "Back &#38; White" when it should be "Black &#38; White"

Hakim, you always make cool things. :)

I dragged in a screenshot of OSX. Makes the dock look cool ;-)

worked great for me. awesome! i've been wanting to learn Processing so i could create public apps like this that do fun things to photos.. has anyone done that?

I really like it. well done.

Love it.

Why?

And the purpose?