Package com.octo.captcha.component.image.wordtoimage

this package provides implementations of the WordToImage interface.

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Interface Summary

WordToImage

Provides methods to tranform a word to an image.

Class Summary

AbstractWordToImage	Implementation skeleton for the WordToImage component Basically this class implements the imageFromWord method proceding as folow : Checks the word length Creates an java.text.AttributedString from the word Apply font to the AttributedString using the abstract method getFont Create an image for the background using the abstact method getBackround Put the text on the backround using the abstact method pasteText Return the newly created image This class implements the Template method pattern from the GOF design patterns.
ComposedWordToImage	Base class for composed WordToImage It extends the AbstractWord to image and uses three others Components : a FontGenerator to implement the getFont() method a BackgroundGenerator to implement the getBackround() method a TextParser to implement the pasteText() method
DeformedComposedWordToImage	This implementation uses deformation components to distord the image.
FilteredComposedWordToImage	Deprecated. since beta-4 : use DeformedComposedWordToImage, that now use the new deformation component.
SimpleWordToImage	Simple image to word implementation.

Package com.octo.captcha.component.image.wordtoimage Description

this package provides implementations of the WordToImage interface.
Main class is the AbstractWordToImage wich defines the strucure of the implementations provided.
ComposedWordToImage is the first concrete WordToImage. It is based on the Template method pattern in order to build an image from a word :
It uses three intefraces : located in subpackages

• Uses an FontGenerator to apply a font to a word
• Uses an BackgroundGenerator to retrieve a background image on which text will be pasted
• Uses an TextPaster to past the formated word on the background

See sub packages for implementations of interfaces.