Concatenate, conjoin, meld, extract images

[Jim Carlock]

I'm looking to use an image of letters and numbers, whereby I
need a way to extract each letter and number to create random
strings, then combine/conjoin/meld/mesh/merge/unify/unite the
images into one one image.

Is it better to extract each individual letter from one image and
then create the new image or is it better to use 36 different
images of different names and then create the image from that?
And can anyone provide any help in this regard?

And I imagine however, that 50 selected letter sequences works
stored in 50 separate images works better and faster than having
PHP on the server do it, but that might depend upon the processor
on the server as well.

There's a word which describes what I want to accomplish but it
wants to hide in the recesses of my mind, and basically I want to
ask the end user to type in the letters in the image presented to
verify that the email coming through came through via a human
reader rather than a robot.

Thanks for any suggestions and/or comments.

Jim Carlock
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[Geoff Berrow]

Message-ID: <Zv************ ********@tornad o.tampabay.rr.c om> from Jim
Carlock contained the following:

There's a word which describes what I want to accomplish but it
wants to hide in the recesses of my mind, and basically I want to
ask the end user to type in the letters in the image presented to
verify that the email coming through came through via a human
reader rather than a robot.

Captcha

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[Chung Leong]

Jim Carlock wrote:

And I imagine however, that 50 selected letter sequences works
stored in 50 separate images works better and faster than having
PHP on the server do it, but that might depend upon the processor
on the server as well.

That won't work at all, since a bot could just look at the filename to
figure out what letter it contains. For captcha to work, the image has
to be dynamically generated.

[Jim Carlock]

"Geoff Berrow" <bl******@ckdog .co.uk> stated:

Captcha

You know I was searching for a couple things, I ran across "Turing test".
So I thought, "Okay, interesting name," and I kept looking, it just didn't
ring a bell...

I ran across another link for embedding pictures...
http://www.ckdog.co.uk/php/imgtests/emboss.php

I thought cool! Nice code!

I looked through dictionary dot com for synonyms... merge showed up,
as well as the other words in the "Subject: Concatenate, conjoin, meld,
extract images".

Anyways, I'm taking a look at the emboss items there and I noticed
the server took a little time in delivering the content. It took about one
to two seconds to get the image to me. Don't know if that helps you
at all, but perhaps you know the processor does the processing?
Curious minds want to know. I'm not going to say that I think there's
a 286 handling the delivery, but would you know?

Thanks for "Captcha".

And in reply to Chung, I was thinking along these lines:

Method (1)
1, and only 1, gif to read each character from
(a) letter a is first image inside the gif, so read first image from the big
image, letter 'b' is the second image, so calculate second image location
and read second image from big image, etc.
(b) add the read character to new image,
(c) loop until word is complete,
(d) display new image.

Method (2)
26 images to read each character from
(a) letter 'a' is a.gif, 'b' is b.gif, etc, get appropriate image from correct
file,
(b) add the read character to the new image,
(c) loop until word is complete,
(d) display new image.

My initial thoughts involved it would be easier to create an array and
read the images based upon the file name in the array, and that would
be quicker, but upon reconsidering, loading one big image up and then
processing from the one image seems much quicker (only one disk
access occurs versus 4 disk accesses for 4 character words).

Thanks much.

Jim Carlock
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[Geoff Berrow]

Message-ID: <En************ ********@tornad o.tampabay.rr.c om> from Jim
Carlock contained the following:

Anyways, I'm taking a look at the emboss items there and I noticed
the server took a little time in delivering the content. It took about one
to two seconds to get the image to me. Don't know if that helps you
at all, but perhaps you know the processor does the processing?
Curious minds want to know. I'm not going to say that I think there's
a 286 handling the delivery, but would you know?

Well, since I wrote the script, yes I would know. <g>

The image is generated on the fly, pixel by pixel, by comparing two
images. The second image has to be resized first. That's partly what
takes the time, the server is fast enough.

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[Jim Carlock]

"Geoff Berrow" <bl******@ckdog .co.uk> wrote:

Have more fun here,
http://www.ckdog.co.uk/watermark

I played around with that and couldn't get it to work. I sent you an
email explaining things.

Jim Carlock
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