Hi all,

I am very, very new to processing, and I don't have a background in programming at all, so I hope I'm not making a fool out of myself here, but I would like to know if the following is possible in processing.

I recently made a few posters for a student project about stuttering.
What I did was this: i did a google search for something (can't remember what). On the search result page I did a search for the letter s, t, u, t, t, e, r, and I made screenshots of that. So I had a screenshot for a page with the letter s highlighted all over the page, one with the letter t and so on. Then I manipulated the screenshots in photoshop to finish the image (i have a link to a finished image, but this forum won't let me post it, because this is my first post here).

My question is: can I automate this in processing? Or can I make something in processing to come up with a similar result? And is it possible to make processing output the image to a webpage?

Well, I hope you understand what I'm trying to do. Thanks in advance for your answers!

Hans Willem

hmm, not an easy task for processing, guess text recognition of a given image and finding the letters and highlight them isnt easy.
but also when you have a text, you cant just highlight single letters as it is still not possible to highlight within a given text.
You can export images, pdfs etc. but no webpages.

I dont see a good way to solve this task in processing, but i am curious if somebody else does.

I would probably try to do it with php,javascript, css. dont know.  maybe you can write something like a greasemonkey script that automatically highlights your letters.

You might be able to do it in Processing, but I suspect it would be far easier to do using a more web-specific language like PHP or javascript (especially using something like jQuery):  You should be able to 'include' the contents of a page onto your own page and then process it aplying custom CSS styling to get the result you want...