PHP Image Split by Character

[Kudose]

'ello all.

First, let me say that I am not trying to break CAPTCHA's or anything like that.

What I would like to do is take an image of a word in standard fonts and split the words into character images.

Is anyone aware of a class that will do this?

If not, can someone please push me in the right direction as to the functions I would need to use? I've never done anything like this before.

Thanks!

[dagon]

php graphics functions are a little limited for such a thing, cant think of any php way to read an image in the way necessary.

[HalfaBee]

I tried this simple test on a single line of text, the background needs to be the same colour, so it is a very simplified test.

<? 
$im = imagecreatefrompng ( 'words.png' );
$x = imagesx( $im );
$y = imagesy( $im );
for( $xx = 0;$xx<$x;$xx++ ) {
    $different = 'the same.';
    for( $yy=0;$yy<$y;$yy++ ) {
        if( $yy==0 ) {
            $c = imagecolorat ( $im, $xx, $yy );
            continue;
        } else {
            if( $c != imagecolorat ( $im, $xx, $yy ) ) {
                $different = 'different.';
            }
        }
    }
    echo "Line $xx is $different<br>\n";
}

?>