hello everyone

 

this is ma first post so please omit and guide if i do something wrong...

 

this is my query

 

i want to make text in images searchable. i am planning to upload image related to medical stuff pretty much like ^this image.

 

is it possible to make the text used to label the image in above example searchable ?

 

i have searched online and some one refer to TIFF images.

 

p.s.

m not web developer. so please explain in lay man terms if at possible.

 

thanks

I've never had to do this, so take this with a pinch of salt...

 

My first thought would be to create the image as a PDF with embedded text (in inDesign or similar) and embed that on the webpage. As the text will be selectable (rather than rasterised part of the image) it may be searchable. Also it depends on what your using to search with... I think Google will index the content of PDF file and so maybe useful, if your relying on a normal site search, then maybe not, but I don't know.

 

The other option would be to have the image sans any text, then overlay the text using CSS. For an image like your example, that would be very tedious, but it would do the job. If you have lots of images to do...well, I wouldn't have the patience to do it.