HTML Snapshot ActiveX control uses the internet explorer’s 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. * Directly save the webpage at a given URL into image in bmp, jpeg, tiff or gif format. * Create thumbnail images from large images. * The capture process is reported to application using ActiveX event as well as the result codes. * Examples in VB, VC are provided.

HTML Snapshot 1.0 was released by Guangming Software on Monday 13 September 2004. Its known requirements are : Windows OS with Internet explorer 5+.
HTML Snapshot will run on Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.