I am looking for a software that can capture web pages into gif/jpg
(automatic capture is a must. we intend to capture 100,000 - 200,000
sites).

Example at: http://thumbnails.alexa.com/images/bigjpeg/y/yahoo.com_.big.jpeg

The size of the caputre does not matter, as I have technology to do a
mass resize.

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Request for Question Clarification by haversian-ga on 03 Jun 2003 09:25 PDT

How technically involved are you prepared for this software to be?

I see some problems that can be solved a number of ways, depending on
your preference:
1 - What browser?  Do you want software with a built-in browser?  Of
what quality?  Something which uses IE's rendering engine would
probably be easier to find, but the Gecko rendering engine found in
Netscape, Mozilla, and others is noticeably superior in standards
compliance.
2 - What about filenames?  Do you need/want the software to
automatically name your files with the URI of the resource you are
saving?
3 - Where to go?  Should the software automatically read a text file
for URIs and browse those?
4 - What platform?  Windows?  UNIX/Linux?  MacOS?  Would you accept a
series of shell or perl scripts as "a software"?

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Clarification of Question by imi-ga on 03 Jun 2003 10:12 PDT

1 - What browser?  Do you want software with a built-in browser?  Of
what quality?  Something which uses IE's rendering engine would
probably be easier to find, but the Gecko rendering engine found in
Netscape, Mozilla, and others is noticeably superior in standards
compliance.

Which ever browser, as long as we can get picture of the web site. 

2 - What about filenames?  Do you need/want the software to
automatically name your files with the URI of the resource you are
saving?
yes, filename should be name of the web site or someting similar. we
are very good at mass rename later, as long as it has some kind of
sequence.

3 - Where to go?  Should the software automatically read a text file
for URIs and browse those?
yes, and more importantly capture the picture and save to file.

4 - What platform?  Windows?  UNIX/Linux?  MacOS?  Would you accept a
series of shell or perl scripts as "a software"?
We would prefer *nix based (so we can change around if it doesnt do
100%). Perl or shell script would be excellent. A fully function
windows program would also be acceptable.  no MacOs

Hi! Thanks for the question.

I was able to find three fully functional Windows programs that you
can use to convert HTML to JPG/GIF.

Our first link is your best bet and provides the solution you need.

HTML2JPG Features
 
a. "HTML2JPG creates a BMP or JPG image with the whole 
'vertical' content of the webpage."

b. "HTML2JPG produces an image of the size that you specify."

c. "HTML2JPG can operate in batch-mode and generate hundreds
of images without your intervention."

HTML2JPG
http://www.html2jpg.com/

Other programs I found are the following:

Zan Virtual Image Printer 
http://www.zan1011.com/

ePrint from Leadtools
http://www.leadtools.com/Utilities/PrinterDriver/ePrint-Features.htm

Search terms used:  
convert converter html jpg           
"html to jpeg" conversion 
                 
I hope these links would help you in your research. Before rating this
answer, please ask for a clarification if you have a question or if 
you would need further information. 
                 
Thanks for visiting us.                  
                 
Regards,                  
Easterangel-ga                  
Google Answers Researcher

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Request for Answer Clarification by imi-ga on 04 Jun 2003 23:13 PDT

Can you find any Linux / Unix software that does the same thing as HTML2JPG

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Clarification of Answer by easterangel-ga on 04 Jun 2003 23:32 PDT

Hi imi-ga! Thanks for asking a clarification before providing a
rating.

In your question clarification you specifically mentioned that

"A fully function windows program would also be acceptable.". This is
the reason I attempted to answer the question.

However, before posting the answer I still looked for a Unix or Linux
version but could not find anything. When I received this new
clarification I still looked but couldn't find anything.

Since this is an additional requirement for the question (a Linux
version), I suggest that you post a new version of this so that
another researcher might get a crack at it.

Thanks again.

Best Regards.
Easterangel-ga

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Clarification of Answer by easterangel-ga on 04 Jun 2003 23:33 PDT

You may also add that you want a Unix version as well if possible.

Thanks!

Great research, helpful information!

Hi imi,

Have you considered "printing the web pages"
to a file? You can parse the postscript files 
later into a number of other file formats.
The final conversion could even be carried out
on another computer, to free up the resources
of the spidering computer. 

-AI