Email to Image

Enter an email address and click create.

Email

Create (in a pop-up window)

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Description

This script converts a string of text into a JPG image. This helps prevent email addresses from being programmatically extracted by web crawlers, reducing spam risk.

How To Use

Modify or insert the text and click create. Then right-click and save the generated JPG image.

To integrate into a website, use this tool instead of the traditional mailto link:

<a href="mailto:thisis@my.email">thisis@my.email</a>

Instead, generate an image:

<img src="exemail.jpg" width="120" height="16">

Further Uses and Ideas

How it Works

The PHP script:

header("Content-type: image/jpg"); if (!isset($string)) { $string = "No Data"; } $font = 4; // Font size $width = ImageFontWidth($font) * strlen($string); $height = ImageFontHeight($font); $im = @imagecreate($width, $height); $background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255); $text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0); imagestring($im, $font, 0, 0, $string, $text_color); imagejpeg($im);

Relevant Links

• PHP Manual - imagestring
• PHP Manual - imagejpeg