Intro

Textorizer takes a raster image in a format such as png, jpeg or gif, detects edges using a Sobel convolution filter and replaces them with supplied lines of text.

The output from textorizer is in SVG, which can be viewed directly in the Firefox 1.5 browser or using the Adobe SVG Plugin.

Source Code

Textorizer is a C extension to PHP, and released under the W3C software license.

• textorize.php
• textorize.c
• php_textorize.h
• config.m4

Discuss

There is a pool on flickr to which you may post your results and discuss bugs and ideas for textorizer.

Author

Textorizer was originally written by Max Froumentin and this wrapper was put together by Paul Downey.