ActiveX Component that uses the internet explorer's functionality to take (capture) a snapshot of a given URL

HTML Snapshot ActiveX Component uses the internet explorer's functionality to take (capture) a snapshot of a given URL. HTML Snapshot can capture snapshots and images.

HTML Snapshot hosts the web browser control on windows to download webpage and then capture it as image.It can be easily integrated into applications written in languages that support ActiveX Component such as Visual C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, C++ Builder, .Net languages and Scripts.

Do you ever want to take a screenshot of a web page in your desktop or web application? Html Snapshot can capture the whole web page as JPG, BMP, PNG, TIFF and GIF image on the fly.

Not only html files, the plain text files as well as the Web Archive Format (*.MHT) files can be converted to image with HTML Snapshot easily, too.

You may want to control the compression quality of JPEG or change the compression method of TIFF image. No worry. Html Snapshot has done these for you.

HTML Snapshot ActiveX Component uses the internet explorer's functionality to take (capture) a snapshot of a given URL. It hosts the web browser control on windows to download webpage and then capture it as image. It can be easily integrated into applications written in languages that support ActiveX Compoent such as Visual C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, C++ Builder, .Net languages, Java, Scripts like Perl, Php, Python.

Here are some key features of "HTML Snapshot":

· Directly save the web page at a given URL into image in bmp, jpeg, tiff, gif or png format. i.e. html to image, html to jpg function you are looking for.
· Directly convert html string to images.
· Support saving the whole html page to image without scrollbars.
· Create thumbnail images from large images.
· Get links, title, cookie or html source of a page
· Get the html document DOM interface
· Make gray or black and white images
· Reduce color number in images while keeping better quality.
· Support compressing images into jpg, tiff, gif or png in memory without temporary files created.
· Support JPEG compression level and TIFF compression method selection
· Convert VML to bmp, jpg, tiff, gif or png
· Convert html to vector image format like EMF and WMF
· Convert html to transparent GIF
· Rich examples in VC, Delphi, VB, VB.Net, C#, ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, Perl, Python, Cold Fusion, PowerBuilder, FoxPro, Windev, VB and Java script as well as Java and Ruby are provided.
· Small footprint (less than 300k) for web application
· Support Windows Vista and IE7 now
· Convert html to text
· Support Windows X64 edition (under x64 window)
· Draw text watermark after converting html to image
· Support http authentication


Requirements:

· Internet Explorer 5 above,
· Internet connection,
· High color display mode


Limitations:

· Unregister label on the captured image