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HTML Snapshot ActiveX control uses the internet explorers functionality to take (capture) a snapshot of a given URL. It hosts the web browser control on windows to download webpage and then capture the WHOLE html page it as image. It can be easily integrated into applications written in languages that support ActiveX control such as Visual C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, C++ Builder and .Net languages.

Key features of HTML Snapshot:

• Directly save the web page at a given URL into image in bmp, jpeg, tiff, gif or png format. (i.e. html to image, html to jpg, html to image, html to tiff, html to png etc)

• Directly convert html string to images.

• Directly convert MHT web archive to image in bmp, jpeg, tiff, gif or png format.

• Support saving the whole html page to image without scrollbars.

• Support http authentication and bypass authentication dialog automatically.

• Create thumbnail images from large images.

• Get links, title, cookie or html source of a page.

• Get the html document DOM interface.

• Make gray or black and white images.

• Reduce color number in images while keeping better quality.

System Requirements: 

• Windows Platform,

• Internet Explorer 5 above,

• Internet connection,

• High color display mode.

HTML Snapshot screenshot: