# Map image to tmx

**URL:** <https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/map-image-to-tmx/2897>\
**Category:** Guide\
**Created:** [December 19, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/map-image-to-tmx/2897 "2017-12-19T21:46:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![bjorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/bjorn/32/1599_2.png) [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/map-image-to-tmx/2897/5 "2017-12-30T16:42:28Z")

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Nice tool! It’s an often requested feature so eventually I do hope to get around to building this right into Tiled as some kind of “import map from image” feature.

Btw, I’m a bit wary of running binaries (which includes .jars), since there is no way to know what it’ll do. What about publishing the source code?

Other tools that cover this use-case are [Map-Tiler](https://github.com/NonlinearIdeas/Map-Tiler), [ShoeBox](http://renderhjs.net/shoebox/extractTiles.htm) and the scripts covered in [this wiki page](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/wiki/Import-from-Image).

Edit: I recently ran into an [Online Tileset Extractor](http://cache.andre-michelle.com/tools/html/tileset-extractor.html), which is worth a try as well.

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