TEXT2IMAGE : Convert an ASCII text file to image

Text to image conversion.

Description

This code converts any ASCII text file (notepad, MATLAB-m files, etc) into images.

Screen shot is the image being converted from a notepad file that had the story - Christmas Carol.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.11 (2010b)

[Fahad Al Mahmood]

Try replacing lines (52) and (53) with the following:
PathName=[pwd '\all letters\capital\'];
PathName=[pwd '\all letters\small\'];

[manish sardiwal]

 

[manish sardiwal]

good software

[Arun Powar]

very nice coding..

[ghini0n ghinion]

 

[David Smith]

Can you give some example applications of this? I don't understand why anyone would do this.

That said, the code works nicely. It might be faster if you eliminated the strfind by converting the text data to ASCII codes and using those to index 'data_all'. Think of it this way, chars are already represented as integers in a standardized 256-element array (the ASCII char set), so there's no need to make your own array ('char_array_all') to index them.

Also, calculating the size of att2 and preallocating it might help. If that's too hard, guess its upper limit, then crop at the end.

[Divakar Roy]

Hello,

First of all thank you for going through the code and putting up all those feedback.

I saw few files on MATLAB File-exchange and outside of it that convert images into ASCII text files. They gave those images fun-look.
The main intention when I made this code was to take a snapshot of those text files, so that one could see the whole text file without scrolling.

For more info please google for "text to image".

About using ASCII char set, yes that was one option, but then I am not using all the characters from the ASCII set, I am only using 95 ASCII characters, so even if I try to replace strfind, in the revised code I would have to still use
some sort of index finding method.

I followed your suggestion to do pre-allocation for att2, which gave me appreciable speed-up, so a big thank you to you! Pre-allocation won't be easy in the earlier part because of the variable nature of the sizes.

Thanks again!
Divakar

[Natalya]

Thanks!!!