Real-time image personalization

A system that facilitates performing real-time personalization of electronic images, comprising:

• a processor that executes computer-executable instructions stored to a memory, including instructions for:
• receiving input coordinates for vertices of a quadrilateral deemed to lie on a planar surface represented in an electronic image;
• reading one or more variable text strings from a database;
• executing an affine transform to fit each text string into a rectangular text box;
• performing a non-linear projective transform on the rectangular text box to move vertices of the rectangular text box to the vertices of the quadrilateral;
• and
• rendering each transformed text string in its quadrilateral on a respective version on the electronic image;
• and
• a printer that prints the electronic image with the text string positioned in the quadrilateral on the electronic image.

A method of personalizing an electronic image, comprising:

• identifying a planar surface in the image;
• delineating a quadrilateral on the planar surface;
• inserting a variable text string into a rectangular text box using an affine transform;
• projecting the text box into the quadrilateral using a non-linear transform;
• and
• rendering the projected text onto the planar surface in the image and outputting a modified electronic image.