How to Hide a Text File in an Image

There is an old trick to hide a file or text in an Image an send it to your friends over Internet. If we search in Google with the keyword "Hide message in an Image", we can see a lot of tools to hide your text in an image. It is not like hiding a file just in your computer like Hide a file by redirecting it to My Computer or redirecting file to Recycle Bin. Here you can save the new image as a stand alone picture and send it to your friends. Here I am presenting a step to hide your file in a JPG image and send it to your friend.

Steps to hide Text in an Image

To hide an text in an image, you should have:

i. A quality JPG image

ii. Text file you need to hide

iii. WinRar


Here I assume the text file we need to hide is named as text.txt and the image is image.jpg , hidenfile.rar is the compressed file of text.txt using WinRar.

Now let us see how to hide text in an image.

1. Save the image and text file in C drive ( C:\encrypt )

2. Open Command Prompt and go to C:\encrypt

{ Steps to go to C:\encrypt

i. Type cd\ and press enter, now you will go to C:\

ii. Type cd encrypt and press enter

}

3. On Command Prompt and type

copy /b image.jpg + hidenfile.rar newimage.jpg

Here newimage.jpg is the picture which contains the compressed file hidenfile.rar and you can send it your friend. He can open this file using winrar and extract the hidden message from the picture.