Tool to extract the contents of an acrostic. Extractor allowing to reveal the hidden content of a text.
Acrostic Extractor - dCode
Tag(s) : Steganography, Data Processing
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Acrostic Extractor
Extract hidden text in an acrostic
Answers to Questions (FAQ)
What is an acrostic? (Definition)
An acrostic is a text or poem which can reveal a second hidden text, e.g. using initials of each line, or each word.
What are the elements extracted from the acrostic?
It is possible to extract multiples items (non-exhaustive list) from a text, document or poem written as an acrostic.
Example: The text: ABC DEFGH I JK,
LMNOPQ RSTU,
VW XYZ.
— Initial letter of a line
Example: With a vertical reading: ALV
— Initial letter of a word
Example: The first letters are ADIJLRVX
— Letters in the middle or words or lines (mesostic)
— Last letters of words or line (telestic)
— First and last letters of words or line (acroleuton).
Generally, the hidden text is a name, a password, a first name, a secret code etc. The default example of dCode is from a psalm from Edgar Allan Poe. Other famous writers such as George Sand and Alfred de Musset have written famous acrostics.
How to hide a sentence through a poem?
Take one of these techniques and let talent write! This function can be automated with language models and artificial intelligence.
Source code
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