This program takes a raster image (e.g. JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, etc.) and converts it to HTML using tables.

It has no legitimate use that I know of. It's the most horribly inefficient way to represent an image that I can imagine:

Sample input BMP: 77,869 bytes
Sample output HTML: 544,675(!) bytes.

Heed the warning on the index page—translating anything other than dimensionally very small images may well crash your browser because of the huge Web pages it generates. So, like, use at your own risk.

But! It's fun. Wheeeee!

Web server that can execute CGI scripts. I recommend Apache.

Perl

CGI Perl module (comes with Perl)

Imager Perl module

Imager requires you to have system libraries installed for the image formats you want to be able to read:

libpng for PNG images
libjpeg for JPG images
libtiff for TIFF images
libungif for GIF images

See it in action on pantsblazing:

MD5: 378e9442b6ce929c71695d29654e9470

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